For the past years, I’ve started using more and more golang as a scripting language, and since in the past we were forced to put code in the GOPATH it became a little cumbersome compared to just write a bash file in the current folder
Project goinit
So I created a go program called goinit
to generate a new project in my GOPATH
at ~/go/src/github.com/kandros/[project-name]
and open it in my editor, so far it server me very well, every new experiment is just a couple keystroke away goinit my-app
, I literally can see something in the console in less than 15 seconds
Using go mod
Since go 1.11 I’ve started using go modules and stopped using goinit
, a couple days ago I decided to refactor it to handle creating projects outside GOPATH
and decided to use an even simpler solution, a custom shell function
goinit() {
mkdir -p ~/coding/$1
cd ~/coding/$1
cat <<-EOF > main.go
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
fmt.Println("hello")
}
EOF
go mod init github.com/kandros/$1
code-insiders --new-window . --goto main.go
}
It works the same way as my previous script by running goinit new-project
in the terminal it will create the folder ~/coding/new-project
open the project in VScode and the file main.go
Make the function accessible globally
This function is stored in my ~/.zshrc
file to be available in the terminal, Bash users can put it in their ~/.bash_profile
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