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Mastering Go

You're reading from   Mastering Go Create Golang production applications using network libraries, concurrency, machine learning, and advanced data structures

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838559335
Length 798 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

1. Go and the Operating System 2. Understanding Go Internals FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Basic Go Data Types 4. The Uses of Composite Types 5. How to Enhance Go Code with Data Structures 6. What You Might Not Know About Go Packages and Functions 7. Reflection and Interfaces for All Seasons 8. Telling a UNIX System What to Do 9. Concurrency in Go – Goroutines, Channels, and Pipelines 10. Concurrency in Go – Advanced Topics 11. Code Testing, Optimization, and Profiling 12. The Foundations of Network Programming in Go 13. Network Programming – Building Your Own Servers and Clients 14. Machine Learning in Go 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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 will understand immediately what Cobra does, as all these tools were developed using cobra.

As you will see in this section, commands in cobra 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 a given command 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 tool, then you create commands, and then you make the desired changes to the generated Go source code files...

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