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Lists of underrated tools to use and more.

Tools

Lists of underrated tools to use and more.

• Package documentation is now managed by pkgsite (previously godoc). Install it with the following command and then, in the project root , launch this command: pkgsite. It launches a website on http://localhost:8080 to explore the packages documentation.

go install golang.org/x/pkgsite/cmd/pkgsite@latest

• Structured logger https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/exp/slog (see the live presentaion)
• go:embed provides access to files embedded in the running Go program (like bo-bindata) https://pkg.go.dev/embed
• Golang Vulnerability: https://vuln.go.dev/

$ go install golang.org/x/vuln/cmd/govulncheck@latest

• Golang updates

https://github.com/golang/dl

$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.19.2@latest
$ go1.19.2 download
$ ln -s /home/rv/sdk/go1.19.2 /usr/local/go

• Online converter from JSON to Go struct

https://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/

• Fieldalignment: A part of gotools and govet linter, fieldalignment prints out misaligned structs and the current/ideal size of struct.

https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis/passes/fieldalignment/cmd/fieldalignment

fieldalignment -fix ${package_path}

• Stringer is a tool to automate the creation of methods that satisfy the fmt.Stringer interface.

https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools@v0.1.1/cmd/stringer

• Go fmt also provides an interface to perform replacements in the codes base

https://pkg.go.dev/cmd/gofmt