goforj/godump

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1754 stars · 36 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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godump is a zero-dependency, developer-friendly pretty-printer and debug dumper for Go, inspired by Laravel's dump() and Symfony's VarDumper. It provides colorized terminal and HTML output of structs, slices, and maps, with cyclic reference detection, JSON helpers, and diff output.

Use cases

• pretty-print Go structs for debugging
• dump variables with colorized terminal output
• diff two Go values visually
• dump structs as JSON strings
• replace fmt.Println debugging with structured dumps
• inspect nested maps and slices with cycle detection

When to choose

• you want a Laravel/Symfony-style dump() or dd() experience in Go
• you need zero-dependency debugging output
• you want HTML or JSON dump formats alongside terminal output

When to avoid

• you need deep reflection-based serialization for production data export
• you only need simple fmt printing
• you need a debugger with breakpoints rather than print debugging

Facets

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developer-tools logging developer-tools go cli cross-platform pretty-print debug-dumper var-dump zero-dependency laravel-inspired colorized-output debugging command-line

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