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.Go Programming Blueprints

You're reading from   .Go Programming Blueprints Build real-world, production-ready solutions in Go using cutting-edge technology and techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468949
Length 394 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Mat Ryer Mat Ryer
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Preface 1. Chat Application with Web Sockets 2. Adding User Accounts FREE CHAPTER 3. Three Ways to Implement Profile Pictures 4. Command-Line Tools to Find Domain Names 5. Building Distributed Systems and Working with Flexible Data 6. Exposing Data and Functionality through a RESTful Data Web Service API 7. Random Recommendations Web Service 8. Filesystem Backup 9. Building a Q&A Application for Google App Engine 10. Micro-services in Go with the Go kit Framework 11. Deploying Go Applications Using Docker Appendix. Good Practices for a Stable Go Environment

Cleaning up, building, and running tests on save

Since the Go core team has provided us with such great tools as fmt, vet, test, and goimports, we are going to look at a development practice that has proven to be extremely useful. Whenever we save a .go file, we want to perform the following tasks automatically:

  1. Use goimports and fmt to fix our imports and format the code.
  2. Vet the code for any faux pas and tell us immediately.
  3. Attempt to build the current package and output any build errors.
  4. If the build is successful, run the tests for the package and output any failures.

Because Go code compiles so quickly (Rob Pike once actually said that it doesn't build quickly, but it's just not slow like everything else), we can comfortably build entire packages every time we save a file. This is also true for running tests to help us if we are developing in a TDD style, and the experience is great. Every time we make changes to our code, we can immediately see whether we have broken something...

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