Go Newsletter Issue #154

Hermes: Responsive HTML Email Generation from Go  code 

A Go port of Node’s mailgen. It can generate HTML and plain text emails and all customization is behind a tidy Go API.

Mathieu Cornic

Approaches for Adding Visual Interfaces to Command Line Apps  tutorial 

A quick run-through of several text-based UI libraries in Go, including termbox, tcell, and termui.

Applied Go

x/crypto/ssh To Require Host Key Verification By Default  tutorial 

By default, Go’s ssh package accepts any host keys which can make MITM attacks easier. This is now changing but could break existing uses of the package.

Phil Pennock

Each talk, each session, each line of code at SIGNAL is designed to help you hone your craft. After learning with your peers & wielding new Twilio tools, celebrate at $bash - the after party that will transport you to The World's Fair of the Future.

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How to Use Go's Context Package  video 

A well produced 30 minute dive into the context package, how it can make requests​ easier to monitor, and logs easier to grep.

Francesc Campoy

22 Videos from GopherCon India 2017  video 

It took place in late February. We’re going through them and will link to some of the best ones in future issues.

GopherCon India

Gosh: A Pluggable Command Shell  tutorial 

Vladimir Vivien

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Go Font Family Gets Update, Including New 'Small Caps' Fonts  news 

Bigelow and Holmes

A Guide to HTTP Request Handling and Processing  tutorial 

Aimed at those new to Go covering the standard library offerings and third-party routers.

Lanre Adelowo

Go to The Rescue: Saving DevOps From TLS Turmoil  tutorial 

If you need to validate certificates or certificate chains before deploying them, Go provides a near foolproof test method..

Chris Short

Creating a (Very) Simple API Client in Go  tutorial 

Scaledrone

Download our eBook and learn how to create a Dockerfile from scratch, how to push images to Docker Hub, and some Dockerfile best practices.

Codeship   sponsored 

JSON Decoding with Go  video 

A series of examples of decoding JSON from pass-through to writing your own unmarshalling function.

Abiola Ibrahim

Go for Object-Oriented Developers  opinion 

A look at Go’s constructs from an object oriented design expert.

Tom Radcliffe

Monorepo Design in Go  opinion 

Should you keep all your code in a single repo? Here’s one take.

Jim Walker

The Pros and Cons of Monorepos with Go  opinion 

Another article on using a monorepo, this one explains pros and cons vs a multi-repo approach.

Aliaksandr Pliutau

5 Reasons Why We Switched From Python To Go  opinion 

Tigran Bayburtsyan

Forwards and Backwords Pipes in Go  opinion 

A way to know when all the goroutines are complete without using a WaitGroup.

David Collier-Brown

GoReporter: A Go Code Quality Report Generator  tools 

Concurrently runs several linters/checks and normalizes results into a report.

wangguoliang

RubberDoc: A Go REST API Documentation Generator  tools 

Rocket Internet SE

Realize: Go Build System with Watchers and Live Reload  tools 

Run, build and watch file changes.

github.​com

Gomoku: An Experimental Go to (Modern) C++ Compiler  tools 

C++ has come on a long way in recent years and stylistically shares more in common with Go than you might think.

Leandro A.​ F.​ Pereira

Build your next Go app with mgo and MongoDB Atlas  tools 

MongoDB Atlas is the best way to run MongoDB on AWS. Connect directly to your free cluster with our Go driver.

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Gotron: Go and Electron Boilerplate for Desktop Applications  code 

Matthias Nösner

PocketPlace: Draw Pixels On A Canvas with Friends  code 

Inspired by Reddit’s /r/place and pxls.space.

Ola Holmström

Machma: Easy Parallel Execution of Commands with Live Feedback  code 

Alexander Neumann

GoMoney: An Implementation of Martin Fowler's Money Pattern  code 

Handle monetary values using a currency’s smallest unit.

Raimondas

A Proof of Concept of Integrating Go and React Native in a Mobile App  code 

Casey Manus