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title: CodeTools

An overview of tools that will help improve your Go code

All-in-one

• golangci-lint - Fast linters runners for Go. Bundle of gofmt, govet, errcheck, staticcheck, revive and many other linters. Recommended by the original author to replace gometalinter (Drop-in replacement).
• DEPRECATED: 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

• air - Live reload for Go apps.
• gofmt - Start with the standard Go code formatter.
• DEPRECATED: golint - Detects style mistakes in Go code.
• staticcheck - Go programming language linter.
• goimports - Format code and fix your import statements.
• gofumpt - A stricter gofmt.
• revive - Fast, configurable, extensible, flexible, and beautiful linter for Go.

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.
• gotemplate - Package-based templating system for Go.
• DEPRECATED: sqlgen - Generate Go code for SQL interactions.
• zek - Generate Go struct from XML.
• apidocgen - Generate web apis markdown docs and mocks.
• goaccessor - Getters and setters generator.

Refactoring

Articles

• gorename - easy refactoring
• Refactoring 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

• AlignCheck, 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.
• DEPRECATED: SafeSQL - Protect against unsafe SQL in your code (deprecated).

Navigation

• Go Guru - User Manual - A tool for understanding Go code.
• Pythia - A browser-based UI for Go Guru.

Visualization

• godepgraph - A tool for generating dependency graphs of Go code.
• go-size-analyzer - A tool that shows the size of each dependency of a Go binary.