README.md

Awesome Golang Repository to learn Golang

A curated list of libraries, tools, blog articles, videos and books to help any willing individual to learn Golang.

Contents

• Hello World
• Conventions
• APIs
• Databases
• Testing
• Libraries

Hello World

Install

Linux Windows MacOS

Basics

• You can always purchase an udemy course. I recommend Akhil Sharma. He also has a very brilliant youtube channel that covers various Golang projects. Find his youtube channel here
• If you're a visual learner, I recommend this video on Freecodecamp's youtube
• If you're in need of a platform, I recommend the Boot.dev golang course to get a grasp of the language. The link for the course is here

Tools

• For Visual Studio Code users, make sure to install the Go extension. It is a lifesaver.

Conventions

Talks

• Watch/listen to this talk to get the nuances of the language

Books

• Read the following books:
• If you send me a screenshot of you contributing/donating a dollar to any open-source repo, i will try to send you an epub of the books:

100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them Learning Go, 2nd Edition

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APIS

Frameworks

• I recommend using the in-built http module and a router, either Gorilla Mux or Chi

• A major framework I recommend is Gin Gonic

REST

• To learn about REST architecture in Go, read Building RESTful Web services with Go

GraphQL

• To use graphql, try 99designs' gqlgen

Remote Procedure Calls

• I recommend using gRPC by Google

Databases

SQL

• You can use goose for database migrations

• You can write raw sql queries that will be generated into type-safe code using Kyle's sqlc package here

ORMS

• You can use Gorm as your ORM

NOSQL

• MongoDB, use this
• DynamoDB, use this

Testing

• Use Golang's inbuilt testing module to run tests in go. Read this to better understand testing in go.

Libraries

This is a list of various Golang libraries to use in projects.

• Sentry for error handling
• Generate UUID
• Validators for strings,structs etc
• For creating mocks for testing