Awesome Golang

Starting (strongly recommended)

• Golang Tour - https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1
• Effective Golang - https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html
• Go by Example - https://gobyexample.com
• Just for Func - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_4eRD8aegk&list=PL64wiCrrxh4Jisi7OcCJIUpguV_f5jGnZ
• Go testing techniques - https://talks.golang.org/2014/testing.slide#1
• Go naming - https://talks.golang.org/2014/names.slide#1
• Go organizing - https://talks.golang.org/2014/organizeio.slide#1
• Go is not good - https://github.com/ksimka/go-is-not-good

Patterns and Practices

• Awesome Golang - https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go
• Go Patterns - https://github.com/tmrts/go-patterns

Courses and Video Tutorials

• Tod Mcload course (udemy) (some parts for beginners) - https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-how-to-code/
• Stephen Grider (udemy) - https://www.udemy.com/go-the-complete-developers-guide/
• Web Development Tod Mcload - https://www.udemy.com/go-programming-language/
• Grpc and Protobuf Course from Stephene Mareek - Same course, Udemy https://www.udemy.com/grpc-golang/ or Safari https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/grpc-golang-master/9781838555467
• Ultimate Go Programming - https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/ultimate-go-programming/9780134757476/9780134757476-ugpg_00_00_00_00

Exercises with Language

• Exercism - https://exercism.io/tracks/go
• Gophercises - https://gophercises.com

Editor & IDE

• Goland (jetbrains) (strongly recommend)
• VSCode (very good)
• VimGo

Command Line Developer Tools

• Command line go tools - http://dominik.honnef.co/posts/2014/12/an_incomplete_list_of_go_tools/
• Linter and static analyzer - https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint

Bloggers

• Dave Cheney - https://dave.cheney.net/category/golang
• Resources for new Go programmers - https://dave.cheney.net/resources-for-new-go-programmers

Useful Libraries

• Databases
  • Postgresql Drivers
    • https://github.com/lib/pq
    • https://github.com/jackc/pgx
  • Extension for Golang’s Standard SQL Library - https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx
  • SqlMock Driver for Test - https://github.com/DATA-DOG/go-sqlmock
  • Golang DAO Library - https://github.com/netologist/frodao
  • GoQU Query DSL - https://github.com/doug-martin/goqu
  • Golang Migrate (flyway alternative) - https://github.com/golang-migrate/migrate
• Validator - https://github.com/go-playground/validator
• Testing
  • Testify - https://github.com/stretchr/testify
  • Ginkgo & Gomega (bdd style testing) - https://onsi.github.io/ginkgo/
  • Gomock - https://github.com/golang/mock https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2017/08/gomock-tutorial/
• Configuration
  • Envconfig - https://github.com/kelseyhightower/envconfig
  • Viper - https://github.com/spf13/viper
  • Confucius - https://github.com/netologist/confucius
• Logger
  • Logrus - https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus
  • zap - https://github.com/uber-go/zap
• Frameworks
  • Chi Framework - https://github.com/go-chi/chi (it’s my favorite because works with go’s http handler)
  • Gin-gonic - https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin
  • Echo - https://github.com/labstack/echo
  • Gorilla Mux - https://github.com/gorilla/mux (deprecated)
• Dependency Management
  • Go Modules
• Dependency Injections
  • Google Wire - https://github.com/google/wire
• Linters and Static Analysers
  • GolangCI-Lint - https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint

Important Topics

• Pointers
• Slices
• Goroutines
• Contexts
• Channels
• Duck Typing (important testing) - https://medium.com/@matryer/golang-advent-calendar-day-one-duck-typing-a513aaed544d
• Table Testing - https://dave.cheney.net/2013/06/09/writing-table-driven-tests-in-go
• Build Tags - https://pliutau.com/separate_unit_integration_tests/
• Go Generator - https://github.com/netologist/dao-pattern/blob/master/repositories/order.go
• Project Layout - https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout
• Pipeline pattern for channels
• Fan-in & Fan-out patterns for channels
• Go Modules
• Generics