Starting projects:

Run:

go mod init github.com/seanbreckenridge/project_name

when in $GOPATH/src/github.com/seanbreckenridge/project_name

.. to initialize your project properly.

There is no canonical specification for where you put your files/packages.

If:

• … you’re making a command, you want a main.go in the same directory, using package main and func main. With the go mod file, go build builds the proper binary. You can split the main package across multiple files without messing with import paths, everything acts as a global within the package across multiple files. Can also just do go install to run go build and install it into your $GOBIN
• … you’re making a library, which would be importable through the path above specified in the go mod command. There’s no requirement to do so, but you typically create a file with the same name as the package (e.g. package_name.go), at the root directory. A lib/src folder is often used, but its not required. You should think a lot about how your package is structured, because people will directly reference the path of the package structure.

Making functions start with uppercase automatically exports the function from the package.

To do both a command and a library, you typically have a cmd/package_name/main.go file, which can then be installed from:

go get github.com/seanbreckenridge/project_name/cmd/command_name

.. and installed locally like:

go install ./cmd/command_name

Basic Testing

For basic tests, 9 times out of 10, you want to make the package name for the test file packagename_test, and call it packagename_test.go.

You can use the testing library like:

func TestFunctionName(t* testing.T) {
  packagename.FunctionName()
}

.. and then run go test