~golangweekly | Bookmarks (66)

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.

🧊 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.”

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+

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..

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.

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.

XLSX 3.3.5: A Library to Reading and Write XLSX (Excel) Files — Did you know Excel spreadsheet files are basically XML? That makes them pretty easy to manipulate and work with, but libraries like this make it even easier.

SQLBoiler 4.16: A 'Database-First' ORM — Create your schema at the database level first and then the ORM code for Go is generated based upon the underlying reality.

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

Harmony: A 'Peaceful' Module for Using Discord's API — When I first linked this years ago, I wrote “Discord is a popular chat app, particularly in gaming communities.” Imagine needing to be told that nowadays.. 😆

Algnhsa 1.1: AWS Lambda net/http Server Adapter — Run Go webapps serverlessly on AWS Lambda with API Gateway or ALB without changing existing HTTP handlers.

Avo 0.6: Generate x86 Assembly with Go — Makes assembly easier to write by way of Go control structures and virtual registers. An example of adding two numbers shows off how it works in a simple way. v0.6 adds support for more AVX instructions and improves Go 1.20+ support.

📊  Benchmarking Different Go SQLite Drivers — As with any benchmark results, maintain a critical eye, but the author found significant differences between the seven options.

A Go-Powered Arkanoid Clone — For those who weren’t gaming in the 80s, think a bat and ball game 😄 This one is written in Go, uses Ebitengine, and adopts an entity component system (ECS) architecture.

Uber's Go Style Guide — Want to know how a large org writes Go? Take a ride with Uber's guidelines, performance notes, and style concerns.