markcsims / food

go make it

A walking skeleton of a go project using docker compose

building

• You can use the standard Go tools if you wish, see build-app.sh
• In Jenkins this will be built using test.sh which uses Docker. run-locally.sh also uses Docker so that you can use all sorts of databases or whatever inside docker-compose.yml

dependencies! go! wtf!

Basically your external lib deps live in /vendor

You could manage this manually, but this project has govendor installed so you should probably use that.

i've never written go before

• Install it
• Next, must-read guide
• Effective Go

From there, there's tons of resources out there. Notable things:

• The official go blog Lots of in-depth articles
• Ben Johnson has an ongoing series of in-depth guides to the standard library. The post on the io package is lovely and you will end up using it a lot so worth a read.
• Go by example

some general tips

• Want the documentation of all of your local packages including stdlib? godoc -http=:6060