Golang Config and Tips

September 12, 2021

Coding and developing apps in Golang has been very nice and exciting. This is a collection of tips, commands etc. A cheetsheet of some sort for useful commands to make your development easy.

Installation

This is primarily geared at Linux systems. Redhat, Rocky, Debian etc.

GOVERSION="1.16.7"
sudo rm -Rf /usr/local/go
sudo wget https://dl.google.com/go/go${GOVERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go${GOVERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo rm go${GOVERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz
/usr/local/go/bin/go version

Run & Build

To run, build compile etc.

# Run go code
go run program.go

# Build go code
go build program.go

Format Go Code

To correct format issues in your code for compliance

# format but don't write
gofmt program.go

# format and write
gofmt -w program.go