jearistiz / hello-go

Learning go

On the GO - Learning

Initially I'm following the tutorials published on GO's website.

I will place here any information I think its useful for me (or you) for later reference.

Some useful go commands

$ go mod init [your-module-sourcecode-url]

Enables dependency tracking of your module by creating a go.mod file in the project's root directory. This file contains your code dependencies as well as a path-URL to find your code [possibly online].

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$ go mod tidy

From the official documentation: Tidy makes sure go.mod matches the source code in the module. It adds any missing modules necessary to build the current module's packages and dependencies, and it removes unused modules that don't provide any relevant packages. It also adds any missing entries to go.sum and removes any unnecessary ones

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go mod edit -replace example/greetings=../greetings

Tells go.mod where to find a local package. In this case it tells to find example/greetings in ../greetings. This is only recommended for code that is used locally.