A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-python.

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Contents

• Awesome Go

  • Audio & Music
  • Authentication & OAuth
  • Command Line
  • Configuration
  • Continuous Integration
  • CSS Preprocessors
  • Data Structures
  • Database
  • Database Drivers
  • Date & Time
  • Distributed Systems
  • Email
  • Embeddable Scripting Languages
  • Financial
  • Forms
  • Game Development
  • Generation & Generics
  • Go Compilers
  • Goroutines
  • GUI
  • Hardware
  • Images
  • Logging
  • Machine Learning
  • Messaging
  • Miscellaneous
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Networking
  • OpenGL
  • ORM
  • Package Management
  • Query Language
  • Resource Embedding
  • Science and Data Analysis
  • Security
  • Serialization
  • Template Engines
  • Testing
  • Text Processing
  • Third-party APIs
  • Utilities
  • Validation
  • Version Control
  • Video
  • Web Frameworks
    • Middlewares
      • Actual middlewares
      • Libraries for creating HTTP middlewares
  • Windows

• Tools

  • Code Analysis
  • Editor Plugins
  • Go Tools
  • Software Packages
    • DevOps Tools
    • Other Software

• Server Applications

• Resources

  • Benchmarks
  • Conferences
  • E-Books
  • Twitter
  • Websites
    • Tutorials

Audio/Music

Libraries for manipulating audio.

• flac - A native Go FLAC decoder.
• flac - A native Go FLAC decoder.
• gaad - A native Go AAC bitstream parser
• go-sox - libsox bindings for go.
• go_mediainfo - libmediainfo bindings for go.
• id3v2 - Fast and stable ID3 parsing and writing library for Go
• mix - Sequence-based Go-native audio mixer for music apps.
• mp3 - A native Go MP3 decoder.
• music-theory - Music theory models in Go.
• PortAudio - Go bindings for the PortAudio audio I/O library.
• portmidi - Go bindings for PortMidi.
• taglib - Go bindings for taglib.
• vorbis - A "native" Go Vorbis decoder (uses CGO, but has no dependencies).
• waveform - Go package capable of generating waveform images from audio streams.

Authentication & OAuth

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

• authboss - A modular authentication system for the web. It tries to remove as much boilerplate and "hard things" as possible so that each time you start a new web project in Go, you can plug it in, configure, and start building your app without having to build an authentication system each time.
• Go-AWS-Auth - AWS (Amazon Web Services) request signing library.
• go-jose - A fairly complete implementation of the JOSE working group's JSON Web Token, JSON Web Signatures, and JSON Web Encryption specs.
• go.auth - Authentication API for Go web applications.
• gologin - chainable handlers for login with OAuth1 and OAuth2 authentication providers.
• gorbac - provides a lightweight role-based access control (RBAC) implementation in Golang.
• goth - provides a simple, clean, and idiomatic way to use OAuth and OAuth2. Handles multiple provides out of the box.
• httpauth - HTTP Authentication middleware.
• jwt - A clean and easy to use implmentatino of JSON Web Tokens (JWT).
• jwt-go - Golang implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT).
• oauth2 - Successor of goauth2. Generic OAuth 2.0 package that comes with JWT, Google APIs, Compute Engine and App Engine support.
• osin - Golang OAuth2 server library.
• permissions2 - Library for keeping track of users, login states and permissions. Uses secure cookies and bcrypt.
• yubigo - a Yubikey client package that provides a simple API to integrate the Yubico Yubikey into a go application.

Command Line

Standard CLI

Libraries for building standard or basic Command Line applications

• cli - A feature-rich and easy to use command-line package based on golang tag
• cli-init - The easy way to start building Golang command line application.
• climax - An alternative CLI with "human face", in spirit of Go command
• cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions
• docopt.go - A command-line arguments parser that will make you smile.
• go-arg - Struct-based argument parsing in Go
• go-flags - go command line option parser
• kingpin - A command line and flag parser supporting sub commands.
• liner - A Go readline-like library for command-line interfaces.
• mitchellh/cli - A Go library for implementing command-line interfaces.
• mow.cli - A Go library for building CLI applications with sophisticated flag and argument parsing and validation.
• readline - A pure golang implementation that provide most of features in GNU-Readline under MIT license.
• ukautz/clif - A small command line interface framework.
• urfave/cli - A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go (formerly codegangsta/cli).
• wlog - A simple logging interface that supports cross-platform color and concurrency.
• wmenu - An easy to use menu structure for cli applications that prompts users to make choices.

Advanced Console UIs

Libraries for building Console Applications and Console User Interfaces

• chalk - Intuitive package for prettifying terminal/console output.
• color - Versatile package for colored terminal output.
• colourize - Go library for ANSI colour text in terminals.
• go-colortext - Go library for color output in terminals.
• gocui - Minimalist Go library aimed at creating Console User Interfaces.
• gommon/color - Style terminal text.
• termbox-go - Termbox is a library for creating cross-platform text-based interfaces.
• termtables - A Go port of the Ruby library terminal-tables for simple ASCII table generation as well as providing markdown and HTML output
• termui - Go terminal dashboard based on termbox-go and inspired by blessed-contrib.
• uilive - A library for updating terminal output in realtime.
• uiprogress - A flexible library to render progress bars in terminal applications.
• uitable - A library to improve readability in terminal apps using tabular data.

Configuration

Libraries for configuration parsing

• config - JSON or YAML configuration wrapper with environment variables and flags parsing.
• configure - Provides configuration through multiple sources, including JSON, flags and environment variables.
• env - Parse environment variables to Go structs (with defaults).
• envcfg - Un-marshaling environment variables to Go structs.
• envconf - Configuration from environment
• envconfig - Read your configuration from environment variables.
• gcfg - read INI-style configuration files into Go structs; supports user-defined types and subsections
• go-options - Clean APIs for your Go Applications
• gofigure - Go application configuration made easy
• hjson - Human JSON, a configuration file format for humans. Relaxed syntax, fewer mistakes, more comments.
• ingo - Flags persisted in an ini-like config file
• ini - Go package for read and write INI files
• mini - A golang package for parsing ini-style configuration files
• store - A lightweight configuration manager for Go
• viper - Go configuration with fangs

Continuous Integration

Tools for help with continuous integration

• drone - Drone is a Continuous Integration platform built on Docker, written in Go
• goveralls - Go integration for Coveralls.io continuous code coverage tracking system.
• overalls - Multi-Package go project coverprofile for tools like goveralls

CSS Preprocessors

Libraries for preprocessing CSS files

• c6 - High performance SASS compatible-implementation compiler written in Go
• gcss - Pure Go CSS Preprocessor.
• go-libsass - Go wrapper to the 100% Sass compatible libsass project.

Data Structures

Generic datastructures and algorithms in Go.

• binpacker - Binary packer and unpacker helps user build custom binary stream.
• bitset - Go package implementing bitsets.
• bloom - Bloom filters implemented in Go.
• boomfilters - Probabilistic data structures for processing continuous, unbounded streams
• count-min-log - A Go implementation Count-Min-Log sketch: Approximately counting with approximate counters (Like Count-Min sketch but using less memory).
• cuckoofilter - Cuckoo filter: a good alternative to a counting bloom filter implemented in Go.
• encoding - Integer Compression Libraries for Go.
• go-adaptive-radix-tree - A Go implementation of Adaptive Radix Tree.
• go-datastructures - A collection of useful, performant, and thread-safe data structures
• go-geoindex - In-memory geo index.
• gods - Go Data Structures. Containers, Sets, Lists, Stacks, Maps, BidiMaps, Trees, HashSet etc.
• golang-set - Thread-Safe and Non-Thread-Safe high-performance sets for Go.
• goskiplist - A skip list implementation in Go.
• hilbert - Go package for mapping values to and from space-filling curves, such as Hilbert and Peano curves.
• levenshtein - Implementation to calculate levenshtein distance in Go.
• mafsa - MA-FSA implementation with Minimal Perfect Hashing
• roaring - Go package implementing compressed bitsets.
• skiplist - Skiplist implementation in Go
• trie - Trie implementation in Go
• ttlcache - An in-memory LRU string-interface{} map with expiration for golang
• willf/bloom - Go package implementing Bloom filters.

Database

Databases implemented in Go.

• bolt - A low-level key/value database for Go.
• buntdb - A fast, embeddable, in-memory key/value database for Go with custom indexing and spatial support.
• cache2go - An in-memory key:value cache which supports automatic invalidation based on timeouts.
• cockroach - A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore
• couchcache - A RESTful caching micro-service backed by Couchbase server.
• dgraph - Scalable, Distributed, Low Latency, High Throughput Graph Database.
• diskv - A home-grown disk-backed key-value store.
• eliasdb - Dependency-free, transactional graph database with REST API, phrase search and SQL-like query language.
• forestdb - Go bindings for ForestDB.
• GCache - Cache library with support for expirable Cache, LFU, LRU and ARC.
• geocache - An in-memory cache that is suitable for geolocation based applications.
• go-cache - An in-memory key:value store/cache (similar to Memcached) library for Go, suitable for single-machine applications.
• goleveldb - An implementation of the LevelDB key/value database in the Go.
• groupcache - Groupcache is a caching and cache-filling library, intended as a replacement for memcached in many cases.
• influxdb - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
• ledisdb - Ledisdb is a high performance NoSQL like Redis based on LevelDB.
• levigo - Levigo is a Go wrapper for LevelDB.
• prometheus - Monitoring system and time series database.
• rqlite - Replicated SQLite, using Raft consensus.
• tidb - TiDB is a distributed SQL database. Inspired by the design of Google F1.
• tiedot - Your NoSQL database powered by Golang.
• Tile38 - A geolocation DB with spatial index and realtime geofencing.

Database schema migration.

• goose - Database migration tool. You can manage your database's evolution by creating incremental SQL or Go scripts.
• gormigrate - Database schema migration helper for Gorm ORM.
• migrate - Database migration handling in Golang support MySQL,PostgreSQL,Cassandra and SQLite.
• pravasan - Simple Migration tool - currently for MySQL but planning to support soon for Postgres, SQLite, MongoDB, etc.,
• sql-migrate - Database migration tool. Allows embedding migrations into the application using go-bindata.

Database tools.

• go-mysql - A go toolset to handle MySQL protocol and replication.
• go-mysql-elasticsearch - Sync your MySQL data into Elasticsearch automatically.
• kingshard - kingshard is a high performance proxy for MySQL powered by Golang.
• myreplication - MySql binary log replication listener. Support statement and row based replication.
• orchestrator - MySQL replication topology manager & visualizer
• pgweb - A web-based PostgreSQL database browser
• vitess - vitess provides servers and tools which facilitate scaling of MySQL databases for large scale web services.

SQL query builder, libraries for building and using SQL.

• dat - Go Postgres Data Access Toolkit
• Dotsql - Go library that helps you keep sql files in one place and use it with ease.
• goqu - An idiomatic SQL builder and query library.
• igor - Abstraction layer for PostgreSQL that supports advanced functionality and uses gorm-like syntax.
• ozzo-dbx - Powerful data retrieval methods as well as DB-agnostic query building capabilities.
• scaneo - Generate Go code to convert database rows into arbitrary structs.
• sqrl - SQL query builder, fork of Squirrel with improved performance.
• Squirrel - Go library that helps you build SQL queries.
• xo - Generate idiomatic Go code for databases based on existing schema definitions or custom queries supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.

Database Drivers

Libraries for connecting and operating databases.

• Relational Databases

  • bgc - Datastore Connectivity for BigQuery for go.
  • firebirdsql - Firebird RDBMS SQL driver for Go
  • go-adodb - Microsoft ActiveX Object DataBase driver for go that using database/sql.
  • go-bqstreamer - BigQuery fast and concurrent stream insert.
  • go-mssqldb - Microsoft MSSQL driver prototype in go language.
  • go-oci8 - Oracle driver for go that using database/sql.
  • go-sql-driver/mysql - MySQL driver for Go.
  • go-sqlite3 - SQLite3 driver for go that using database/sql.
  • gofreetds Microsoft MSSQL driver. Go wrapper over FreeTDS.
  • pgx - PostgreSQL driver supporting features beyond those exposed by database/sql.
  • pq - Pure Go Postgres driver for database/sql.

• NoSQL Databases

  • aerospike-client-go - Aerospike client in Go language.
  • arangolite - Lightweight golang driver for ArangoDB.
  • asc - Datastore Connectivity for Aerospike for go.
  • cayley - A graph database with support for multiple backends.
  • dsc - Datastore connectivity for SQL, NoSQL, structured files.
  • dynago - Dynago is a principle of least surprise client for DynamoDB
  • go-couchbase - Couchbase client in Go
  • go-couchdb - Yet another CouchDB HTTP API wrapper for Go
  • gocb - Official Couchbase Go SDK
  • gocql - A Go language driver for Apache Cassandra.
  • gomemcache - memcache client library for the Go programming language.
  • gorethink - Go language driver for RethinkDB
  • mgo - MongoDB driver for the Go language that implements a rich and well tested selection of features under a very simple API following standard Go idioms.
  • neo4j - Neo4j Rest API Bindings for Golang
  • Neo4j-GO - Neo4j REST Client in golang.
  • neoism - Neo4j client for Golang
  • redigo - Redigo is a Go client for the Redis database.
  • redis - Redis client for Golang
  • redis - A simple, powerful Redis client for Go.
  • redis - Redis-protocol compatible TCP servers/services.

• Search and Analytic Databases

  • bleve - A modern text indexing library for go.
  • elastic - Elasticsearch client for Google Go.
  • elastigo - A Elasticsearch client library.
  • goes - A library to interact with Elasticsearch.
  • skizze - A probabilistic data-structures service and storage.

Date & Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• carbon - A simple Time extension with a lot of util methods, ported from PHP Carbon library.
• durafmt - A time duration formatting library for Go.
• go-persian-calendar - The implementation of the Persian (Solar Hijri) Calendar in Go (golang).
• goweek - Library for working with week entity in golang.
• now - Now is a time toolkit for golang.
• NullTime - Nullable time.Time
• timeutil - Useful extensions (Timedelta, Strftime, ...) to the golang's time package.

Distributed Systems

Packages that help with building Distributed Systems.

• celeriac - A library for adding support for interacting and monitoring Celery workers, tasks and events in Go
• flowgraph - MPI-style ready-send coordination layer.
• glow - Easy-to-Use scalable distributed big data processing, Map-Reduce, DAG execution, all in pure Go.
• go-jump - A port of Google's "Jump" Consistent Hash function.
• gorpc - Simple, fast and scalable RPC library for high load.
• grpc-go - The Go language implementation of gRPC. HTTP/2 based RPC.
• micro - A pluggable microservice toolkit and distributed systems platform.
• NATS - A lightweight, high performance messaging system for microservices, IoT, and cloud native systems.
• raft - Golang implementation of the Raft consensus protocol, by HashiCorp.
• raft - Go implementation of the Raft consensus protocol, by CoreOS.
• rpcx - A distributed pluggable RPC service framework like alibaba Dubbo.
• sleuth - A library for master-less p2p auto-discovery and RPC between HTTP services (using ZeroMQ).
• tendermint - High-performance middleware for transforming a state machine written in any programming language into a Byzantine Fault Tolerant replicated state machine using the Tendermint consensus and blockchain protocols.
• torrent - BitTorrent client package.
  • dht - BitTorrent Kademlia DHT implementation.
  • go-peerflix - Video streaming torrent client.

Email

Libraries that implement email creation and sending

• douceur - CSS inliner for your HTML emails.
• email - A robust and flexible email library for Go.
• go-dkim - A DKIM library, to sign & verify email.
• Gomail - Gomail is a very simple and powerful package to send emails.
• Hectane - Lightweight SMTP client providing an HTTP API
• MailHog - Email and SMTP testing with web and API interface
• SendGrid - SendGrid's Go library for sending email
• smtp - SMTP server protocol state machine

Embeddable Scripting Languages

Embedding other languages inside your go code

• agora - Dynamically typed, embeddable programming language in Go
• anko - Scriptable interpreter written in Go
• gisp - Simple LISP in Go
• go-duktape - Duktape JavaScript engine bindings for Go
• go-lua - A port of the Lua 5.2 VM to pure Go
• go-php - PHP bindings for Go
• go-python - naive go bindings to the CPython C-API
• golua - Go bindings for Lua C API
• gopher-lua - a Lua 5.1 VM and compiler written in Go
• ngaro - Embeddable Ngaro VM implementation enabling scripting in Retro
• otto - A JavaScript interpreter written in Go
• purl - Perl 5.18.2 embedded in Go

Financial

Packages for accounting and finance

• accounting - money and currency formatting for golang
• decimal - Arbitrary-precision fixed-point decimal numbers
• vat - VAT number validation & EU VAT rates

Forms

Libraries for working with forms.

• bind - Bind form data to any Go values
• binding - Binds form and JSON data from net/http Request to struct.
• conform - Keeps user input in check. Trims, sanitizes & scrubs data based on struct tags.
• form - Decodes url.Values into Go value(s) and Encodes Go value(s) into url.Values. Dual Array and Full map support.
• formam - decode form's values into a struct.
• forms - A framework-agnostic library for parsing and validating form/JSON data which supports multipart forms and files.
• gorilla/csrf - CSRF protection for Go web applications & services.
• nosurf - A CSRF protection middleware for Go.

Game Development

Awesome game development libraries.

• Ebiten - A simple SNES-like 2D game library in Go
• engo - Engo is an open-source 2D game engine written in Go. It follows the Entity-Component-System paradigm.
• GarageEngine - 2d game engine written in Go working on OpenGL.
• glop - Glop (Game Library Of Power) is a fairly simple cross-platform game library.
• go-astar - Go implementation of the A* path finding algorithm
• go-collada - Go package for working with the Collada file format.
• go-sdl2 - Go bindings for the Simple DirectMedia Layer.
• go3d - A performance oriented 2D/3D math package for Go
• gonet - A game server skeleton implemented with golang
• Leaf - A lightweight game server framework
• termloop - Terminal-based game engine for Go, built on top of Termbox

Generation & Generics

Tools to enhance the language with features like generics via code generation

• gen - Code generation tool for ‘generics’-like functionality.
• go-linq - .NET LINQ-like query methods for Go.
• interfaces - Command line tool for generating interface definitions.
• pkgreflect - A Go preprocessor for package scoped reflection.

Go Compilers

Tools for compiling Go to other languages

• gopherjs - A compiler from Go to JavaScript.
• llgo - LLVM-based compiler for Go.
• tardisgo - Golang to Haxe to CPP/CSharp/Java/JavaScript transpiler.

Goroutines

Tools for managing and working with Goroutines

• grpool - Lightweight Goroutine pool.
• pool - a limited consumer goroutine or unlimited goroutine pool for easier goroutine handling and cancellation.
• tunny - A goroutine pool for golang.

GUI

Libraries for building GUI Applications

• go-gtk - Go bindings for GTK
• go-qml - QML support for the Go language
• goqt - Golang bindings to the Qt cross-platform application framework.
• gosx-notifier - OSX Desktop Notifications library for Go.
• gotk3 - Go bindings for GTK3.
• sciter - Go bindings for Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/script engine for modern desktop UI development.
• systray - Cross platform Go library to place an icon and menu in the notification area
• trayhost - Cross-platform Go library to place an icon in the host operating system's taskbar.
• ui - Platform-native GUI library for Go.
• walk - Windows application library kit for Go.

Hardware

Libraries, tools, and tutorials for interacting with hardware.

See go-hardware for a comprehensive list.

Images

Libraries for manipulating images.

• bild - A collection of image processing algorithms in pure Go.
• bimg - Small package for fast and efficient image processing using libvips.
• geopattern - Create beautiful generative image patterns from a string.
• gg - 2D rendering in pure Go.
• gift - Package of image processing filters.
• go-cairo - Go binding for the cairo graphics library.
• go-gd - Go binding for GD library.
• go-nude - Nudity detection with Go.
• go-opencv - Go bindings for OpenCV.
• go-webcolors - Port of webcolors library from Python to Go.
• imagick - Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API.
• imaginary - Fast and simple HTTP microservice for image resizing.
• imaging - Simple Go image processing package.
• img - A selection of image manipulation tools.
• ln - 3D line art rendering in Go.
• mpo - A decoder and conversion tool for MPO 3D Photos.
• picfit - An image resizing server written in Go.
• pt - A path tracing engine written in Go.
• resize - Image resizing for the Go with common interpolation methods.
• rez - Image resizing in pure Go and SIMD.
• smartcrop - Finds good crops for arbitrary images and crop sizes.
• svgo - Go Language Library for SVG generation.
• tga - Package tga is a TARGA image format decoder/encoder.

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with log files.

• glog - Leveled execution logs for Go.
• go-log - Log lib supports level and multi handlers.
• go-log - A log4j implementation in Go.
• go-logger - Simple logger of Go Programs, with level handlers.
• gologger - Simple easy to use log lib for go, logs in Colored Cosole, Simple Console, File or Elasticsearch.
• gone/log - Fast, extendable, full-featured, std-lib source compatible log library.
• log - Structured logging package for Go.
• log - Simple, configurable and scalable Structured Logging for Go.
• log-voyage - Full-featured logging saas written in golang.
• log15 - Simple, powerful logging for Go
• logex - An golang log lib, supports tracking and level, wrap by standard log lib
• logger - Minimalistic logging library for Go.
• logrus - a structured logger for Go.
• logrusly - logrus plug-in to send errors to a Loggly.
• logutils - Utilities for slightly better logging in Go (Golang) extending the standard logger.
• logxi - A 12-factor app logger that is fast and makes you happy.
• lumberjack - Simple rolling logger, implements io.WriteCloser.
• mlog - A simple logging module for go, with 5 levels, an optional rotating logfile feature and stdout/stderr output.
• ozzo-log - High performance logging supporting log severity, categorization, and filtering. Can send filtered log messages to various targets (e.g. console, network, mail).
• seelog - logging functionality with flexible dispatching, filtering, and formatting.
• slf - The Structured Logging Facade (SLF) for Go (like SLF4J but structured and for Go)
• slog - The reference implementation of the Structured Logging Facade (SLF) for Go
• stdlog - Stdlog is an object-oriented library providing leveled logging. It is very useful for cron jobs.
• tail - A Go package striving to emulate the features of the BSD tail program.
• xlog - A structured logger for net/context aware HTTP handlers with flexible dispatching.
• zap - Fast, structured, leveled logging in Go.

Machine Learning

Libraries for Machine Learning.

• bayesian - Naive Bayesian Classification for Golang.
• CloudForest - Fast, flexible, multi-threaded ensembles of decision trees for machine learning in pure Go.
• gago - Multi-population, flexible, parallel genetic algorithm.
• go-fann - Go bindings for Fast Artificial Neural Networks(FANN) library.
• go-galib - Genetic Algorithms library written in Go / golang
• go-pr - Pattern recognition package in Go lang.
• gobrain - Neural Networks written in go
• godist - Various probability distributions, and associated methods.
• goga - Genetic algorithm library for Go.
• GoLearn - General Machine Learning library for Go.
• golinear - liblinear bindings for Go
• goml - On-line Machine Learning in Go
• goRecommend - Recommendation Algorithms library written in Go.
• libsvm - libsvm golang version derived work based on LIBSVM 3.14.
• mlgo - This project aims to provide minimalistic machine learning algorithms in Go.
• neural-go - A multilayer perceptron network implemented in Go, with training via backpropagation.
• probab - Probability distribution functions. Bayesian inference. Written in pure Go.
• regommend - Recommendation & collaborative filtering engine
• shield - Bayesian text classifier with flexible tokenizers and storage backends for Go

Messaging

Libraries that implement messaging systems

• Centrifugo - Real-time messaging (Websockets or SockJS) server in Go.
• dbus - Native Go bindings for D-Bus.
• emitter - Emits events