diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yaml b/.github/workflows/lint.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..64f4029
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+name: golangci-lint
+on:
+  push:
+  pull_request:
+jobs:
+  golangci:
+    name: lint
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: golangci-lint
+        uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v2
+        with:
+          # Optional: version of golangci-lint to use in form of v1.2 or v1.2.3 or `latest` to use the latest version
+          version: v1.29
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dd9582d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.golangci.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+run:
+  concurrency: 10
+  tests: true
+  skip-dirs-use-default: false
+  timeout: 5m
+
+linters-settings:
+  golint:
+    min-confidence: 0.8
+  gofmt:
+    simplify: true
+
+linters:
+  enable:
+    - gofmt
+    - gosimple
+    - govet
+    - unconvert
+    - misspell
+    - goimports
+    - golint
+  disable-all: false
+  fast: false
+
+issues:
+  exclude-use-default: false
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/examples/gowebsocket/main.go b/examples/gowebsocket/main.go
index 444e491..a208e02 100644
--- a/examples/gowebsocket/main.go
+++ b/examples/gowebsocket/main.go
@@ -2,21 +2,22 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"log"
-	"github.com/sacOO7/gowebsocket"
 	"os"
 	"os/signal"
+
+	"github.com/sacOO7/gowebsocket"
 )
 
 func main() {
 	interrupt := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
 	signal.Notify(interrupt, os.Interrupt)
 
-	socket := gowebsocket.New("ws://echo.websocket.org/");
+	socket := gowebsocket.New("ws://echo.websocket.org/")
 	socket.ConnectionOptions = gowebsocket.ConnectionOptions{
 		//Proxy: gowebsocket.BuildProxy("http://example.com"),
 		UseSSL:         false,
 		UseCompression: false,
-		Subprotocols:   [] string{"chat", "superchat"},
+		Subprotocols:   []string{"chat", "superchat"},
 	}
 
 	socket.RequestHeader.Set("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate, sdch")
@@ -25,29 +26,29 @@ func main() {
 	socket.RequestHeader.Set("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.87 Safari/537.36")
 
 	socket.OnConnectError = func(err error, socket gowebsocket.Socket) {
-		log.Fatal("Recieved connect error ", err)
-	};
+		log.Fatal("Received connect error ", err)
+	}
 	socket.OnConnected = func(socket gowebsocket.Socket) {
-		log.Println("Connected to server");
-	};
+		log.Println("Connected to server")
+	}
 	socket.OnTextMessage = func(message string, socket gowebsocket.Socket) {
-		log.Println("Recieved message  " + message)
-	};
+		log.Println("Received message  " + message)
+	}
 	socket.OnPingReceived = func(data string, socket gowebsocket.Socket) {
-		log.Println("Recieved ping " + data)
-	};
+		log.Println("Received ping " + data)
+	}
 	socket.OnDisconnected = func(err error, socket gowebsocket.Socket) {
 		log.Println("Disconnected from server ")
-		return
-	};
+	}
 	socket.Connect()
 
 	i := 0
-	for (i < 10) {
+	for i < 10 {
 		socket.SendText("This is my sample test message")
 		i++
 	}
 
+	// nolint: gosimple
 	for {
 		select {
 		case <-interrupt:
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9ceeb25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+module github.com/sacOO7/gowebsocket
+
+go 1.16
+
+require (
+	github.com/gorilla/websocket v1.4.2
+	github.com/sacOO7/go-logger v0.0.0-20180719173527-9ac9add5a50d
+)
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..56fb422
--- /dev/null
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+github.com/gorilla/websocket v1.4.2 h1:+/TMaTYc4QFitKJxsQ7Yye35DkWvkdLcvGKqM+x0Ufc=
+github.com/gorilla/websocket v1.4.2/go.mod h1:YR8l580nyteQvAITg2hZ9XVh4b55+EU/adAjf1fMHhE=
+github.com/sacOO7/go-logger v0.0.0-20180719173527-9ac9add5a50d h1:5T+fbRuQbpi+WZtB2yfuu59r00F6T2HV/zGYrwX8nvE=
+github.com/sacOO7/go-logger v0.0.0-20180719173527-9ac9add5a50d/go.mod h1:L5EJe2k8GwpBoGXDRLAEs58R239jpZuE7NNEtW+T7oo=
diff --git a/gowebsocket.go b/gowebsocket.go
index 57c622b..6cbaf6f 100644
--- a/gowebsocket.go
+++ b/gowebsocket.go
@@ -1,39 +1,44 @@
 package gowebsocket
 
 import (
-	"github.com/gorilla/websocket"
-	"net/http"
-	"errors"
 	"crypto/tls"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
-	"sync"
-	"github.com/sacOO7/go-logger"
 	"reflect"
+	"sync"
 	"time"
+
+	"github.com/gorilla/websocket"
+	logging "github.com/sacOO7/go-logger"
 )
 
-type Empty struct {
+type empty struct {
 }
 
-var logger = logging.GetLogger(reflect.TypeOf(Empty{}).PkgPath()).SetLevel(logging.OFF)
+var logger = logging.GetLogger(reflect.TypeOf(empty{}).PkgPath()).SetLevel(logging.OFF)
 
+// EnableLogging enables the logger
 func (socket Socket) EnableLogging() {
 	logger.SetLevel(logging.TRACE)
 }
 
+// GetLogger gets the logger object
 func (socket Socket) GetLogger() logging.Logger {
-	return logger;
+	return logger
 }
 
+// Socket provides a websocket request
 type Socket struct {
 	Conn              *websocket.Conn
 	WebsocketDialer   *websocket.Dialer
-	Url               string
+	URL               string
 	ConnectionOptions ConnectionOptions
 	RequestHeader     http.Header
 	OnConnected       func(socket Socket)
 	OnTextMessage     func(message string, socket Socket)
-	OnBinaryMessage   func(data [] byte, socket Socket)
+	OnBinaryMessage   func(data []byte, socket Socket)
 	OnConnectError    func(err error, socket Socket)
 	OnDisconnected    func(err error, socket Socket)
 	OnPingReceived    func(data string, socket Socket)
@@ -44,20 +49,23 @@ type Socket struct {
 	receiveMu         *sync.Mutex
 }
 
+// ConnectionOptions contains connection options
 type ConnectionOptions struct {
 	UseCompression bool
 	UseSSL         bool
 	Proxy          func(*http.Request) (*url.URL, error)
-	Subprotocols   [] string
+	Subprotocols   []string
 }
 
-// todo Yet to be done
+// ReconnectionOptions provides options for reconnecting to the websocket
+// TODO Yet to be done
 type ReconnectionOptions struct {
 }
 
+// New creates a new websocket for the given url
 func New(url string) Socket {
 	return Socket{
-		Url: url,
+		URL:           url,
 		RequestHeader: http.Header{},
 		ConnectionOptions: ConnectionOptions{
 			UseCompression: false,
@@ -77,16 +85,17 @@ func (socket *Socket) setConnectionOptions() {
 	socket.WebsocketDialer.Subprotocols = socket.ConnectionOptions.Subprotocols
 }
 
+// Connect connects to the websocket server
 func (socket *Socket) Connect() {
-	var err error;
+	var err error
 	var resp *http.Response
 	socket.setConnectionOptions()
 
-	socket.Conn, resp, err = socket.WebsocketDialer.Dial(socket.Url, socket.RequestHeader)
+	socket.Conn, resp, err = socket.WebsocketDialer.Dial(socket.URL, socket.RequestHeader)
 
 	if err != nil {
 		logger.Error.Println("Error while connecting to server ", err)
-		logger.Error.Println("HTTP Response %d status: %s", resp.StatusCode, resp.Status)
+		logger.Error.Println(fmt.Sprintf("HTTP Response %d status: %s", resp.StatusCode, resp.Status))
 		socket.IsConnected = false
 		if socket.OnConnectError != nil {
 			socket.OnConnectError(err, *socket)
@@ -134,19 +143,22 @@ func (socket *Socket) Connect() {
 		for {
 			socket.receiveMu.Lock()
 			if socket.Timeout != 0 {
-				socket.Conn.SetReadDeadline(time.Now().Add(socket.Timeout))
+				err := socket.Conn.SetReadDeadline(time.Now().Add(socket.Timeout))
+				if err != nil {
+					logger.Error.Println(err)
+				}
 			}
 			messageType, message, err := socket.Conn.ReadMessage()
 			socket.receiveMu.Unlock()
 			if err != nil {
-				logger.Error.Println("read:", err)
+				logger.Error.Println(fmt.Sprintf("read: %s", err))
 				if socket.OnDisconnected != nil {
 					socket.IsConnected = false
 					socket.OnDisconnected(err, *socket)
 				}
 				return
 			}
-			logger.Info.Println("recv: %s", message)
+			logger.Info.Println(fmt.Sprintf("recv: %s", message))
 
 			switch messageType {
 			case websocket.TextMessage:
@@ -162,15 +174,17 @@ func (socket *Socket) Connect() {
 	}()
 }
 
+// SendText sends a test message to the server
 func (socket *Socket) SendText(message string) {
-	err := socket.send(websocket.TextMessage, [] byte (message))
+	err := socket.send(websocket.TextMessage, []byte(message))
 	if err != nil {
 		logger.Error.Println("write:", err)
 		return
 	}
 }
 
-func (socket *Socket) SendBinary(data [] byte) {
+// SendBinary sends a binary message to the websocket
+func (socket *Socket) SendBinary(data []byte) {
 	err := socket.send(websocket.BinaryMessage, data)
 	if err != nil {
 		logger.Error.Println("write:", err)
@@ -178,19 +192,20 @@ func (socket *Socket) SendBinary(data [] byte) {
 	}
 }
 
-func (socket *Socket) send(messageType int, data [] byte) error {
+func (socket *Socket) send(messageType int, data []byte) error {
 	socket.sendMu.Lock()
 	err := socket.Conn.WriteMessage(messageType, data)
 	socket.sendMu.Unlock()
 	return err
 }
 
+// Close closese the websocket
 func (socket *Socket) Close() {
 	err := socket.send(websocket.CloseMessage, websocket.FormatCloseMessage(websocket.CloseNormalClosure, ""))
 	if err != nil {
 		logger.Error.Println("write close:", err)
 	}
-	socket.Conn.Close()
+	_ = socket.Conn.Close()
 	if socket.OnDisconnected != nil {
 		socket.IsConnected = false
 		socket.OnDisconnected(err, *socket)
diff --git a/utils.go b/utils.go
index d8702eb..907ab21 100644
--- a/utils.go
+++ b/utils.go
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 package gowebsocket
 
 import (
+	"log"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
-	"log"
 )
 
-func BuildProxy(Url string) func(*http.Request) (*url.URL, error) {
-	uProxy, err := url.Parse(Url)
+// BuildProxy creates an http proxy
+func BuildProxy(rawURL string) func(*http.Request) (*url.URL, error) {
+	uProxy, err := url.Parse(rawURL)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatal("Error while parsing url ", err)
 	}