Top 23 Go Backend Projects

• pocketbase

  180 33,771 9.7 Go

  Open Source realtime backend in 1 file

  

Project mention: Making a free, fully-featured, infinitely scalable IaaS with predictable pricing | dev.to | 2024-05-13

Solutions like pocketbase and coolify come close to solving these problems. However, I wouldn't choose either as I fear architecture lock-in as much as vendor lock-in. Especially in the case of pocketbase, I may be forced to rewrite my application if it were to scale overnight.

• nakama

  41 8,389 8.9 Go

  Distributed server for social and realtime games and apps.

  

Project mention: Show HN: Goober Dash a multiplayer game made in Godot3 with 50k levels | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-15

Hey HN.

We have a pretty cool tech stack to make a game like this possible, so I thought I'd give a writeup of how we did it.

We ship Goober Dash to multiple websites, iOS, Android, Mac App Store & Steam PC/Mac/Linux. We run timed deals on premium cosmetics and have advertising on the web versions.

We have a kubernetes cluster that has Agones [1] for game server orchestration, a custom written matchmaker, a fork of nakama [2] for the account system, our gameserver fleets (Godot in a docker container), some monitoring tools, a postgres database, and a bunch of ingress controller stuff. We run all of this out of Digital Ocean's nyc datacenter. Fun fact: my personal ping to nyc suddenly got much faster a few months ago (80ms -> 50ms).

We made this game in Godot 3 using a custom c++ netcode module for rollback and resimulation. This multiplayer system supports websocket, webRTC and enet as a transport layer. The clients use a second thread to simulate from the server state to their current state. This second thread is usable even on the web when SharedArrayBuffer is available.

We made a level editor for this game where users can create levels. There are over 50,000 levels. Most of them are kinda throw away levels of users simply trying out the level editor, but there are some really cool levels too, like this 'flappy bird' level [3] or this one that uses crates in a cool way [4].

For this game, we wrote the majority of it in GDScript as a first prototype, but then before release we had to rewrite the gameplay loop in c++ to make it performant enough (we can hit 60fps on android web on many devices now).

We are a small company of 3 people up in Canada and we've been working our butts off for 3 years to make it work as an indie gaming studio. We're climbing and grinding, but still not crushing it. Personally, I think Goober Dash is a great game and deserves more attention. Would love to know what you think of it, and I can answer any questions about Godot as I have been using it professionally for years now.

[1] https://github.com/googleforgames/agones

[2] https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama

[3] https://gooberdash.winterpixel.io/?play=f3ccaa3e-5c9c-41f8-8...

[4] https://gooberdash.winterpixel.io/?play=7eb9fe45-6f7d-4c8a-a...

• InfluxDB

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• Encore

  35 4,857 9.7 Go

  Encore is the Backend Development Platform purpose-built to help you create event-driven and distributed systems.

  

Project mention: Build and deploy a REST API with Postgres database in TypeScript | dev.to | 2024-04-15

In this tutorial you will create a REST API for a URL Shortener service using Encore for TypeScript, a new way of building fully type-safe and production-ready distributed systems in TypeScript using declarative infrastructure.

• simplebank

  7 4,034 5.4 Go

  Backend master class: build a simple bank service in Go

• go-backend-clean-architecture

  3 3,757 3.2 Go

  A Go (Golang) Backend Clean Architecture project with Gin, MongoDB, JWT Authentication Middleware, Test, and Docker.

• create-go-app

  6 2,344 6.5 Go

  ✨ A complete and self-contained solution for developers of any qualification to create a production-ready project with backend (Go), frontend (JavaScript, TypeScript) and deploy automation (Ansible, Docker) by running only one CLI command. (by create-go-app)

  

• gobetween

  5 1,902 0.0 Go

  :cloud: Modern & minimalistic load balancer for the Сloud era

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• Goyave

  20 1,416 2.7 Go

  🍐 Elegant Golang REST API Framework (v5 release candidate available)

  

Project mention: Which is the best framework to create web apps with go? | /r/golang | 2023-06-29

Take a look at Goyave, it is inspired by Laravel on some aspects. It's focused on REST APIs only. I wouldn't say it's "the best" because there is no best, it always depends on your needs. Anyway, yesterday I released the first preview version of the v5, a rewrite of the framework trying to solve many weak points of the previous version. It's poorly documented for now because it is still WIP and I wouldn't recommend building production applications with it. Stick to v4 for this for now.

• blockbook

  10 625 8.9 Go

  :blue_book: Trezor address/account balance backend

  

• hasura-auth

  5 368 8.6 Go

  Authentication for Hasura.

  

• kurtosis

  8 277 9.8 Go

  A platform for packaging and launching ephemeral backend stacks with a focus on approachability for the average developer.

  

Project mention: Cool Devtool Websites? | dev.to | 2024-02-06

• authz

  7 228 5.8 Go

  🛡️ Authorization backend that comes with a UI for RBAC and ABAC permissions

• odysee-api

  255 224 7.4 Go

  API server for Odysee

  

Project mention: Gitlab confirms it's removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-22

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With legalized gov corruption (lobbying) and media campaigns to brainwash us into thinking how amazing all these megacorps are, of course most people think a centralized internet is the bee's knees. These people don't have time to crawl through these niche information channels and find out how these user-hostile corporations operate. The people see pretty colors and drool in response. We're given enough time to work, make some babies and die.

• kubetunnel

  2 189 2.1 Go

  Develop microservices locally while being connected to your Kubernetes environment

  

• yokai

  1 189 9.5 Go

  Simple, modular, and observable Go framework for backend applications. (by ankorstore)

  

Project mention: Yokai - a simple, modular and observable Go framework for backend applications. | dev.to | 2024-04-20

Don't hesitate to visit the Yokai repository to find the technical documentation, starting guides and demo applications!

• simpleiot

  3 166 9.5 Go

  Simple IoT cloud/edge application/framework

  

Project mention: Want an easier way to update your Embedded Linux device? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-11

• gosane

  2 82 0.0 Go

  A sane and simple Go REST API template.

• keel

  1 75 9.5 Go

  Keel is an all-in-one backend platform that is designed to give you everything you need to build your product. (by teamkeel)

  

Project mention: Show HN: Keel – A schema-driven back end engine with Go and TypeScript | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-12

Hi HN,

I’m one of the creators of Keel and we're excited (and nervous in equal measures) to be sharing this.

We built Keel on two principles:

1. A backend is much more than just a database. A scalable backend platform should be grounded in engineering best practices and come complete with a full suite of services without having to wire 10 SaaS products together

2. A backend should not be an engineering black box and should be designed from day one to support the entire organisation over time and scale.

Keel is a schema driven backend engine. Define your data model, api actions, permissions, events and jobs in type-safe schemas and get a production-ready backend. All the API plumbing, auth (OIDC/SSO) and core CRUD is handled automatically and you can extend everything with typescript (the core runtime is Go). Your schema actions and custom code are also instantly transformed into internal tooling UI for your whole org.

The Keel platform deploys infrastructure based on your schema’s requirements. You get Postgres, serverless functions, event queues, cron jobs, secret management and multiple environments all wrapped up with OTEL compatible tracing.

We’re very early but we’d love to hear any feedback!

P.S. The Keel runtime is open source (https://github.com/teamkeel/keel) and can be self hosted. The Keel platform then provides fully managed infrastructure and internal tooling. We’ll be launching a BYOC option soon.

• cli

  1 74 8.8 Go

  Nhost CLI (by nhost)

  

• Simple CRUD App w/ Gorilla/Mux, MariaDB

  0 72 0.0 Go

  Simple CRUD Application with Go, Gorilla/mux, MariaDB, Redis.

• mailbear

  2 69 3.6 Go

  Self hosted forms backend

• GraphQL-Go-onepieceAPI

  25 61 2.5 Go

  Basic One Piece (famous manga) API developed in Go & GraphQL, returns the Strawhats crew information, and give you the possibility to create new pirates & crews.

• turbo

  1 42 6.8 Go

  🌀 Turbocharging Go app development (by asim)

Project mention: Turbo – Turbocharge your API back end with AI | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-21

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