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Mastering Go – Third Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Go – Third Edition Harness the power of Go to build professional utilities and concurrent servers and services

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801079310
Length 682 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Quick Introduction to Go 2. Basic Go Data Types FREE CHAPTER 3. Composite Data Types 4. Reflection and Interfaces 5. Go Packages and Functions 6. Telling a UNIX System What to Do 7. Go Concurrency 8. Building Web Services 9. Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket 10. Working with REST APIs 11. Code Testing and Profiling 12. Working with gRPC 13. Go Generics 14. Other Books You May Enjoy
15. Index
Appendix A – Go Garbage Collector

The cobra package

cobra is a very handy and popular Go package that allows you to develop command-line utilities with commands, subcommands, and aliases. If you have ever used hugo, docker, or kubectl you are going to realize immediately what the cobra package does, as all these tools are developed using cobra. Commands can have one or more aliases, which is very handy when you want to please both amateur and experienced users. cobra also supports persistent flags and local flags, which are flags that are available to all commands and flags that are available to given commands only, respectively. Also, by default, cobra uses viper for parsing its command-line arguments.

All cobra projects follow the same development pattern. You use the cobra utility, then you create commands, and then you make the desired changes to the generated Go source code files in order to implement the desired functionality. Depending on the complexity of your utility, you might need to make lots of changes...

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