Part 4: Building and Distributing for Different Platforms

This part of the book is all about building, testing, and distributing your CLI application using Docker and GoReleaser. It starts by explaining the importance of building and testing, and how build tags with Boolean logic can be used to create targeted builds and testing to further stabilize your project with each new feature. The part also covers cross-compilation, a powerful feature of Go, which enables you to compile your application for different operating systems and architectures. The benefits of containerization are also explored, with a focus on Docker containers for testing and distributing your apps. Finally, we end with a discussion using GoReleaser and GitHub Actions in tandem to automate the release of a CLI application as a Homebrew formula, which makes it easy for MacOS users to find and install your software with just one command.

This part has the following chapters:

• Chapter 11, Custom Builds and...