Go Wiki: GoGenerateTools

go generate is only useful if you have tools to use it with! Here is an incomplete list of useful tools that generate code.

• goyacc – Yacc for Go.
• stringer – Implements fmt.Stringer interface for enums.
• gostringer – Implements fmt.GoStringer interface for enums.
• jsonenums – Implements json.Marshaler and json.Unmarshaler interfaces for enums.
• go-syncmap - Generates Go code using a package as a generic template for sync.Map.
• go-syncpool - Generates Go code using a package as a generic template for sync.Pool.
• go-atomicvalue - Generates Go code using a package as a generic template for atomic.Value.
• go-nulljson - Generates Go code using a package as a generic template that implements database/sql.Scanner and database/sql/driver.Valuer.
• go-enum - Generates Go code using a package as a generic template which implements interface fmt.Stringer | binary | json | text | sql | yaml for enums.
• enumer - Generates Go code that convert Go enum to/from strings.
• go-import — Performs auto import of non go files.
• gojson - Generates go struct definitions from example json documents.
• vfsgen - Generates a vfsdata.go file that statically implements the given virtual filesystem.
• goreuse - Generates Go code using a package as a generic template by replacing definitions.
• embedfiles - Embeds files into Go code.
• ragel - State machine compiler
• peachpy - x86-64 assembler embedded in Python, generates Go assembly
• bundle - Bundle creates a single-source-file version of a source package suitable for inclusion in a particular target package.
• msgp - A Go code generator for MessagePack
• protobuf - protobuf
• thriftrw - thrift
• gogen-avro - avro
• swagger-gen-types - go types from swagger specifications
• avo - generate assembly code with Go
• Wire - Compile-time Dependency Injection for Go
• sumgen - generate interface method implementations from sum-type declarations
• interface-extractor - generates an interface of a desired type, with only methods used within the package.
• deep-copy - creates a deep copy method for the given types.
• libfsm - fsm toolkit supporting (among others) Go and Go-flavored amd64 assembly for matching regexps
• re2c - lexer generator for C, C++ and Go
• re2dfa - Transform regular expressions into finite state machines and output Go source code
• pigeon - a PEG parser generator for Go

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