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What is golang-awaitility?

fieldju/golang-awaitility — explained in plain English

Analysis updated 2026-07-17 · repo last pushed 2018-07-10

Audience · developerComplexity · 1/5DormantSetup · easy

In one sentence

A Go library that lets you poll for a condition to become true until a timeout, instead of writing manual sleep-and-retry loops.

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  root((golang-awaitility))
    What it does
      Poll conditions
      Wait with timeout
      Avoid sleep loops
    Tech stack
      Go
    Use cases
      Wait for service ready
      Wait for file exists
      Integration tests
    Audience
      Go developers
    Notable approach
      Clean simple API
      No boilerplate polling

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Wait for a test database to accept connections before running an integration test suite.

USE CASE 2

Poll a condition like 'does this file exist' until it's true or a timeout expires.

USE CASE 3

Check that a background job has completed before asserting its output.

USE CASE 4

Replace manual sleep-and-retry loops in Go test code with a clean API.

What is it built with?

Go

How does it compare?

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Setup difficultyeasyeasymoderate
Complexity1/52/54/5
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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

README is minimal on implementation detail.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Show me how to use golang-awaitility to wait for a service to become ready in a Go integration test.
Prompt 2
Write a Go test that uses golang-awaitility to poll until a file exists, with a 10 second timeout.
Prompt 3
Explain how golang-awaitility avoids hardcoded sleep delays in polling code.
Prompt 4
Help me replace a manual polling loop in my Go tests with golang-awaitility.

Frequently asked questions

What is golang-awaitility?

A Go library that lets you poll for a condition to become true until a timeout, instead of writing manual sleep-and-retry loops.

Is golang-awaitility actively maintained?

Dormant — no commits in 2+ years (last push 2018-07-10).

How hard is golang-awaitility to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is golang-awaitility for?

Mainly developer.

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