Introduction

In the previous chapters, you learned how to produce concurrent and well-tested code. Although Go makes the task of creating concurrent and tested code much easier compared to other languages, these tasks can be intrinsically complex. This is when learning to use tools to write better code that will simplify the complexity comes in handy.

In this chapter, you will learn about Go tools. Go comes with several tools to help you write better code. For example, in the previous chapters, you came across go build, which you used to build your code into an executable. You also came across go test, which you used to test your code. There are also a few more tools that help in different ways. For example, the goimports tool will check if you have all the import statements required for your code to work and if not, it will add them. It can also check if any of your import statements are no longer needed and remove them. While this seems like a very simple thing, it means you no...