An overview of tools that will help improve your Go code

All-in-one

• gometalinter - Automates the installation, configuration and application of gofmt, golint, govet and several other code validation tools.

Code Formatting

Articles

• Formatting Go Code with gofmt

Tools

• gofmt - Start with the standard Go code formatter
• golint - Detects style mistakes in Go code
• goimports - Format code and fix your import statements

Code generation, Templating and Generics

• json-to-go - Generate Go structs from JSON.
• Go gen - Type-driven code generation (generics)
• gojson - Another Go struct generator.
• gonerics.io - Idiomatic Generics in Go
• gotemplate - Package-based templating system for Go
• sqlgen - Generate Go code for SQL interactions.

Refactoring

Articles

• Refactoring with go fmt
• gorename - easy refactoring
• Refectoring Tools - An overview of refactoring tools for Go.
• Quick renaming with gofmt

Tools

• eg - Example-based refactoring tool for Go
• gofmt - Start with the standard Go code formatter
• gorename - Renaming tool for Go

Error Detection

Articles

• Go Inspection Tools - An overview of tools for Go code inspection.

Tools

• DeferCheck, StructCheck, VarCheck - A suite of tools for checking your code.
• errcheck - Ensure you check your error conditions.
• go vet - Read this first on how to use the go vet command.
• SafeSQL - Protect against unsafe SQL in your code.

Navigation

• go oracle - user manual - A tool for understanding Go code
• Pythia - A browser-based UI for the Go Oracle.

Visualization

• godegraph - A tool for generating dependency graphs of Go code.