list.json

{
  "$schema": "schema/list.schema.json",
  "list": {
    "title": "Awesome Go",
    "repo": "floatdrop/awesome-go",
    "branch": "main",
    "description": "A short, hand-curated list of Go libraries and tools that are actually worth using. Not a directory of everything that exists.",
    "logo": "assets/logotype.svg",
    "discord": {
      "server": "1548529967288029294"
    },
    "podium": 10
  },
  "policy": {
    "min_age_days": 90,
    "min_stars": 200,
    "max_inactive_days": 365,
    "max_description_length": 100,
    "require_license": true,
    "require_go": true,
    "allow_forks": false
  },
  "categories": [
    {
      "id": "audio-video",
      "name": "Audio & Video",
      "description": "Codecs, containers and media processing."
    },
    {
      "id": "auth",
      "name": "Authentication & Authorization",
      "description": "Tokens, sessions, OAuth and access control."
    },
    {
      "id": "caching",
      "name": "Caching",
      "description": "In-memory caches and eviction policies."
    },
    {
      "id": "cli",
      "name": "Command Line",
      "description": "Argument parsing, terminal UIs and everything else for building CLIs."
    },
    {
      "id": "concurrency",
      "name": "Concurrency",
      "description": "Goroutine pools, structured concurrency, synchronization helpers and actor frameworks."
    },
    {
      "id": "configuration",
      "name": "Configuration",
      "description": "Loading settings from files, environment variables and flags."
    },
    {
      "id": "data-structures",
      "name": "Data Structures",
      "description": "Bitsets, compressed bitmaps and other containers beyond slices and maps."
    },
    {
      "id": "databases",
      "name": "Databases & SQL",
      "description": "Drivers, query builders, ORMs, migrations, embedded and distributed stores."
    },
    {
      "id": "dependency-injection",
      "name": "Dependency Injection",
      "description": "Wiring applications together."
    },
    {
      "id": "developer-tools",
      "name": "Developer Tools",
      "description": "Linters, build tools, debuggers, code generators and terminal tools for daily development work."
    },
    {
      "id": "embedded",
      "name": "Embedded & Hardware",
      "description": "Compilers, frameworks and drivers for microcontrollers, boards and the devices attached to them."
    },
    {
      "id": "gui",
      "name": "GUI & Desktop",
      "description": "Desktop application frameworks and GUI toolkits."
    },
    {
      "id": "http-clients",
      "name": "HTTP Clients",
      "description": "Making requests with retries, tracing and convenience."
    },
    {
      "id": "messaging",
      "name": "Messaging & Queues",
      "description": "Message brokers, streaming platforms and task queues."
    },
    {
      "id": "networking",
      "name": "Networking & Protocols",
      "description": "Protocol implementations, transports and low-level network plumbing."
    },
    {
      "id": "observability",
      "name": "Observability",
      "description": "Metrics, tracing and instrumentation."
    },
    {
      "id": "resilience",
      "name": "Resilience",
      "description": "Retries, backoff, circuit breakers and other patterns for surviving failing dependencies."
    },
    {
      "id": "rpc-and-api",
      "name": "RPC & API",
      "description": "gRPC, RPC frameworks, GraphQL and OpenAPI tooling."
    },
    {
      "id": "serialization",
      "name": "Serialization",
      "description": "JSON, YAML, TOML, MessagePack and friends."
    },
    {
      "id": "testing",
      "name": "Testing",
      "description": "Assertions, mocks, fixtures and integration test helpers."
    },
    {
      "id": "text-and-templates",
      "name": "Text, HTML & Templates",
      "description": "Parsing and generating markup and text."
    },
    {
      "id": "utilities",
      "name": "Utilities",
      "description": "General-purpose helpers that end up in every project."
    },
    {
      "id": "validation",
      "name": "Validation",
      "description": "Validating structs and inputs."
    },
    {
      "id": "web-frameworks",
      "name": "Web Frameworks & Routers",
      "description": "HTTP servers, routers and full-stack web frameworks."
    }
  ],
  "link_sections": [
    {
      "id": "blog-posts",
      "name": "Blog Posts",
      "description": "Articles that changed how people write Go at work."
    },
    {
      "id": "books",
      "name": "Books",
      "description": "Books worth reading cover to cover."
    },
    {
      "id": "documentation",
      "name": "Documentation",
      "description": "Official guides and references for learning and using the language."
    },
    {
      "id": "podcasts",
      "name": "Podcasts",
      "description": "Shows worth a spot in your queue."
    },
    {
      "id": "videos",
      "name": "Videos",
      "description": "Talks and courses worth watching from start to finish."
    }
  ]
}