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Ankit Anand ✨
Ankit Anand ✨

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7 GitHub projects to make you a better Go Developer💥

Go is a compiled, concurrent, garbage-collected, statically typed language developed at Google. Go was designed to be an excellent tool for writing large software projects.

According to 2020 stackoverflow developer survey, Go was the 3rd most wanted programming language to learn.

So today, I want to share 7 amazing GitHub projects that will help you become a better Go developer. While some repos can help you have a self-learning path for Go, others can be useful for your workflows.🤓

So let's get started. 👊


Currently building SigNoz - an open-source application performance monitoring tool. Backend of SigNoz is built in Go.

Check out our GitHub repo👇

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SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. 🔥 🖥. 👉 Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool

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Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc.

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SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. With SigNoz, you can:

👉 Visualise Metrics, Traces and Logs in a single pane of glass

👉 You can see metrics like p99 latency, error rates for your services, external API calls and individual end points.

👉 You can find the root cause of the problem by going to the exact traces which are causing the problem and see detailed flamegraphs of individual request traces.

👉 Run aggregates on trace data to get business relevant metrics

👉 Filter and query logs, build dashboards and alerts based on attributes in logs

👉 Record exceptions automatically in Python, Java, Ruby, and Javascript

👉 Easy…





1. Awesome Go

⭐ Github stars: 65.4k

You can call it the encyclopedia of Go programming language. Just bookmark it to come back to whenever you need something in Go. It is a massive curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software

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A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software

Awesome Go

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Awesome Go has no monthly fee, but we have employees who work hard to keep it running. With money raised, we can repay the effort of each person involved! You can see how we calculate our billing and distribution as it is open to the entire community. Want to be a supporter of the project click here.

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

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2. Standard Go Project Layout

⭐ Github stars: 24.6k

This repo contains a basic layout for Go application projects. Although it's not an official standard defined by the core Go dev team, it is a set of common historical and emerging project layout patterns in the Go ecosystem.

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Standard Go Project Layout

Standard Go Project Layout

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Overview

This is a basic layout for Go application projects. Note that it's basic in terms of content because it's focusing only on the general layout and not what you have inside. It's also basic because it's very high level and it doesn't go into great details in terms of how you can structure your project even further. For example, it doesn't try to cover the project structure you'd have with something like Clean Architecture.

This is NOT an official standard defined by the core Go dev team. This is a set of common historical and emerging project layout patterns in the Go ecosystem. Some of these patterns are more popular than others. It also has a number of small enhancements along with several supporting…

3. Go kit

⭐ Github stars: 20.5k

Go kit is a programming toolkit for building microservices in Go. Go kit solves common problems in distributed systems and application architecture so you can focus on delivering business value.

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A standard library for microservices.

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Go kit is a programming toolkit for building microservices (or elegant monoliths) in Go. We solve common problems in distributed systems and application architecture so you can focus on delivering business value.

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Motivation

Go has emerged as the language of the server, but it remains underrepresented in so-called "modern enterprise" companies like Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, and SoundCloud. Many of these organizations have turned to JVM-based stacks for their business logic, owing in large part to libraries and ecosystems that directly support their microservice architectures.

To reach its next level of success, Go needs more than simple primitives and idioms. It needs a comprehensive toolkit, for coherent distributed programming in the large. Go kit is a set of…

4. Go Design patterns

⭐ Github stars: 15.4k

This repo contains a curated collection of idiomatic design & application patterns for Go language. You can find patterns like: creational patterns, structural patterns, behavioral patterns, concurrency patterns, messaging patterns.

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Curated list of Go design patterns, recipes and idioms

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A curated collection of idiomatic design & application patterns for Go language.

Creational Patterns

Pattern Description Status
Abstract Factory Provides an interface for creating families of releated objects
Builder Builds a complex object using simple objects
Factory Method Defers instantiation of an object to a specialized function for creating instances
Object Pool Instantiates and maintains a group of objects instances of the same type
Singleton Restricts instantiation of a type to one object

Structural Patterns

Pattern Description Status
Bridge Decouples an interface from its implementation so that the two can vary independently
Composite Encapsulates and provides access to a number of different objects
Decorator Adds behavior to an object, statically or dynamically
Facade Uses one type as an API to a number of others
Flyweight Reuses existing instances of objects with similar/identical state to minimize resource usage
Proxy

5. Learn Go with test-driven development

⭐ Github stars: 14.6k

Go is a good language for learning test-driven development as Go's standard library provides a built-in testing package. This repo has a list of Go fundamentals with examples of test-driven code implementations.

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Learn Go with test-driven development

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Why

Table of contents

Go fundamentals

  1. Install Go - Set up environment for productivity.
  2. Hello, world - Declaring variables, constants, if/else statements, switch, write your first go program and write your first test. Sub-test syntax and closures.
  3. Integers -…




6. The Ultimate Go Study Guide

⭐ Github stars: 14.3k

The Ultimate Go Study Guide is a collection of notes for students taking the Ultimate Go class. It is compiled of sample programs with line-by-line comments to help students follow the code better. You will find the link to the repo's content in readme.md file.


7. 1000+ Hand-crafted Go examples, exercises and quizzes

⭐ Github stars: 9.8k

Inside this repository, you will find thousands of Go examples, exercises and quizzes.

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❤️ 1000+ Hand-Crafted Go Examples, Exercises, and Quizzes. 🚀 Learn Go by fixing 1000+ tiny programs.

Get my book!

Go by Example: Programmer's guide to idiomatic and testable code.

👉 https://github.com/inancgumus/gobyexample

This book is what you need once you wrap up the exercises in this repository.

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A Huge Number of Go Examples, Exercises and Quizzes

Best way of learning is doing. Inside this repository, you will find thousands of Go examples, exercises and quizzes. I initially created this repository for my Go: Bootcamp Course. Later on, I added a lot of exercises, and I wanted every programmer who is not yet enrolled in the course to learn for free as well. So here it is. Enjoy.

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I hope you enjoyed this list. I will be coming up with more such amazing resources soon. So, stay tuned! 🙂

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Boris Jamot ✊ / • Edited

Russ Cox himself bewares that the "Standard Go Project Layout" is really not a standard:

this is not a standard Go project layout #117

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The README makes clear that this is not official, but even the claim "it is a set of common historical and emerging project layout patterns in the Go ecosystem" is not accurate.

For example, the vast majority of packages in the Go ecosystem do not put the importable packages in a pkg subdirectory. More generally what is described here is just very complex, and Go repos tend to be much simpler.

It is unfortunate that this is being put forth as "golang-standards" when it really is not. I'm commenting here because I am starting to see people say things like "you are not using the standard Go project layout" and linking to this repo.

I've been using this layout for 3 years but I've reconsidered the question...

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Ekemini Samuel

Thanks for sharing, Ankit.

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Serge

Unpopular opinion the "Standard Go Project Layout" is just in my opinion a total mess (with many different folders having different kind of contents, all staying in the same place at the root). It's very surprising for such a chaotic organization to be considered as the de-facto standard.

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José Miguel Ochoa

Thanks! Pretty useful since I'm learning Go and still a newbie.

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Ankit Anand ✨

You're welcome :)

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Sohail

Thanks. I found the 4rth one usefull for me.

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Ankit Anand ✨

You're welcome Sohail :)

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rishiyadav1923

Can we consider Uber style guide here I think it is also good, want to if something better is available

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ibrahim Shehu

u forgot to add this github.com/mrekucci/epi 😅

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agithubuser

Thanks!!!