~golangweekly | Bookmarks (56)

goquery: jQuery-esque HTML/DOM Manipulation Methods — A jQuery-a-like approach for working with HTML from Go. Much like jQuery itself, it’s been around for many years, but the latest release (v1.9) adds a generic Map function and requires Go 1.18+.

TinyGo 0.31.0: Now with Go 1.22 Support — A small step for a version number, a giant leap for small Go-kind, as the “Go compiler for small places” gains Go 1.22 support, a macOS arm64 native binary release build, Nim flake support, and upgrades to LLVM 17.

Podinfo: A Go Microservice Template for Kubernetes — A tiny Go-powered app to showcase best practices when running microservices within Kubernetes, including health checks, graceful shutdown, structured logging, ant building multi-arch container images.

Gofakeit v7: The Random Data Generation Library — You can ask it to generate things like random names, email addresses, phone numbers, job titles, and more, or have it help to populate structs using annotated data types. v7 integrates with Go 1.22’s math/rand/v2 which can simplify usage in some cases shown in the release notes. (Main docs.)

ObjectBox Go 1.8: A Fast, Embedded Database for Go Objects — Store objects in ObjectBox and find them again using powerful queries. v1.8 adds support for an in-memory database.

AWS Lambda Web Adapter: Run HTTP Webapps More Easily on AWS Lambda — A Rust project in Go Weekly? 🫣 Fear not, this is a handy adapter that makes it easy to run apps built in any language more easily on AWS’s serverless platform by letting them stick to their usual HTTP serving ways with the adapter bridging the gap.

errcheck 1.7: It Checks That You Checked for Errors — Checking for errors is a fundamental part of the Go experience and this tool will help you check that you checked!

sh 3.8: Shell Code Parser, Formatter, and Interpreter — Supporting sh, bash, and Korn/mksh formats. Now requires Go 1.21 at a minimum.

gdu / go DiskUsage() 5.26.0: A Disk Usage Analyzer with a Terminal Interface — Written in Go, of course. This is a neat tool. Rapidly analyze your disk space usage – it benchmarks well against other tools in the space.

Wire 0.6.0: Compile-Time Dependency Injection for Go — Wire’s job is to simplify the management of initialization code when doing dependency injection. The first release in three years!

IntegreSQL: Manages Isolated Postgres Databases for Testing — Provides a RESTful JSON API for managing Postgres templates and spinning up (and managing the pool of) databases for integration testing purposes.

Golte: Render Svelte Components in Go HTTP Handlers — A library that works with your router of choice, where layouts can be treated like middleware, and pages can be treated like handlers.

Goldmark 1.7: A Markdown Parser Written in Go — Pure Go, easy to extend, and CommonMark compliant (which GitHub-Flavored Markdown is based upon). There’s a WebAssembly-powered Goldmark playground you can play with, too.

Gofeed: A Parser for RSS, Atom, and JSON Feeds — A mature, heavily relied upon, and robust option for parsing RSS, Atom and JSON feeds.

TileEx: A Tile Pattern Extractor — A fun little Go project that can take in an image that contains a pattern and then extract the actual repeating tile element from it. Surprisingly little code, too.

gofumpt 0.6: A Stricter gofmt — If you like rules and gofmt isn’t strict enough, gofumpt has even stricter rules to keep your codebase clean and under control. v0.6 is based on Go 1.21’s gofmt, and requires Go 1.20+

🧊 tinygo-wasm-webgl-demo — A small repo showing off how to use TinyGo, WebAssembly and WebGL to create a simple 3D graphical demo that runs in the browser.

Grape: A New Zero-Dependency HTTP Library for Go — “A thin wrapper around the standard library, providing helper functions to facilitate faster and easier development. Adding only a single dependency to your projects.”

k6: A Go-Powered Load Testing Tool — A full-featured, configurable load generation tool that uses the goja engine (above) to support writing test scripts in JavaScript. (AGPL licensed.)

goja: An ECMAScript/JavaScript Engine in Pure Go — Want to add JS-based scripting functionality to your Go apps? This gives you an option that doesn’t involve bringing in an external engine. For an example of how it might be used, check out the next item..

ffmpeg-go: Go Bindings for FFmpeg — Provides a thin layer over the C library APIs, so you get a lot of power, though you also have to write a fair bit of code to get it. Here’s an example of video transcoding. For Linux and macOS only.

f-license: License Key Generation and Verification Server — A system for creating and validating license keys for other apps.

Goyek 2.1: A Go Library for Task Automation — A simple, cross-platform task automation library where tasks are defined in a Cobra-like style and the actions adopt a unit test feel. v2.1 adds parallel task execution support.