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fx
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uber-go / fx

fx

A dependency injection based application framework for Go.

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10Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
7.7KGitHub stars
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What it is

A dependency injection based application framework for Go.

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I found fx(https://github.com/uber-go/fx) to be a super simple yet versatile tool to design my application around. All the advice in the article is still helpful, but it takes…

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-07-24 18:18:44 UTC to 2025-02-19 07:43:31 UTC.

01232018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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Take a look at the major DI frameworks for Go, Wire [0] and FX [1]. They just plumb the gaps between methods that return types and methods that want them. Although technically they work for concrete types, 99% of the time it's going to be an interface, so that you can substitute a mock for testing. Prior to DI frameworks we used global variables, often initialized in a package's init() method. >The desire to do this reflects a misunderstanding of interfaces. Generally you have a few layers: gRPC/HTTP/Kafka handler, business logic, and database or external service access. Layers are unit tested individually against mocks of the layers below. Because you're going to inject a mock, you can't depend on a concrete type, so you depend on an interface. Often when you're developing you want to know what the concrete implementation of a lower laye
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r does, so it's useful to have "go-to-definition" see through the interface declaration to its implementations. I think the implicit satisfaction of interfaces is very cool and I wish I had it in every language. I wouldn't give it up just to simplify the IDE's job. But the IDE having this functionality does matter. [0] https://github.com/google/wire [1] https://github.com/uber-go/fx
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