Go Project Ladder 🚀

Go Project Ladder 🚀

A progressive set of Go projects (1/10 → 10/10) with requirements and usage expectations.

1. JSON Prettifier (Difficulty 1/10)

Requirements

  • Read a .json file from disk.
  • Pretty-print with indentation.
  • Optionally minify JSON.

Usage

jsonfmt input.json       # pretty-prints
jsonfmt -min input.json  # minifies

2. Word Counter (wc clone) (Difficulty 2/10)

Requirements

  • Count characters, words, and lines.
  • Handle multiple files.

Usage

wc file.txt          # prints lines, words, chars
wc -c file.txt       # prints only characters
wc -w file.txt       # prints only words
wc -l file.txt       # prints only lines

3. Notes CLI (Difficulty 3/10)

Requirements

  • Add, list, and delete notes.
  • Store notes in a JSON file.

Usage

notes add "Buy milk"
notes list
notes delete 1

4. URL Shortener (In-Memory) (Difficulty 4/10)

Requirements

  • HTTP server with endpoints:
    • POST /shorten → returns short URL
    • GET /abc123 → redirects to full URL
  • Store mappings in memory.

Usage

curl -X POST localhost:8080/shorten -d "https://example.com"
# returns http://localhost:8080/abc123

curl localhost:8080/abc123
# redirects to https://example.com

5. Expense Tracker (Difficulty 5/10)

Requirements

  • Log expenses with category and amount.
  • Summarize expenses by category.
  • Export to CSV.

Usage

expenses add "Coffee" 150 Food
expenses list
expenses summary
expenses export report.csv

6. TCP Chat Server (Difficulty 6/10)

Requirements

  • Accept multiple client connections.
  • Broadcast messages to all connected clients.
  • Handle disconnects gracefully.

Usage

go run chatserver.go
# in another terminal:
telnet localhost 9000

7. SQLite Notes App (Difficulty 7/10)

Requirements

  • Notes CLI (like #3) but with SQLite backend.
  • CRUD operations for notes.
  • Simple search functionality.

Usage

notes add "Read Go book"
notes list
notes search "Go"
notes delete 2

8. Static Site Generator (Difficulty 8/10)

Requirements

  • Convert .md files to .html.
  • Use templates for consistent layout.
  • Generate full site into /public folder.

Usage

ssg build content/ public/
# converts all markdown in content/ into HTML

9. Kanban CLI (Difficulty 9/10)

Requirements

  • Manage tasks with states: ToDo, Doing, Done.
  • Move tasks between states.
  • Store tasks in SQLite/JSON.

Usage

kanban add "Learn Go concurrency"
kanban list
kanban move 1 Doing
kanban list Doing

10. Mini Git (Difficulty 10/10)

Requirements

  • Initialize a repo (init).
  • Commit snapshots of files.
  • Show commit history (log).

Usage

minigit init
minigit commit -m "First commit"
minigit log

Includes the project ideas and Plans that I have.

  1. I want to create some sort of automatic telegram channel content downloader, meaning if there is something that I want from a channel to be downloaded it should download it automatically.
  2. Fuzzy search enabled notes manager and synchronisations, that will totally be helpful if merged with bookmarks
  • iterfzf for fuzzy finding
  • git for synchronisation
  • xsel or something similar for clipboard
  1. Automatic mount with rclone and having some good speed
  2. An automated script for the automation of scenarios in MPTCP