Learning Go, so started recording references to all the useful things I find so I can find them again when I need them..

Install

$ brew update && brew install go

or download from Golang Downloads and install

Testing

$ go test - run tests

Generate Tests

gotests - Generate Go tests from your source code

$ gotests -w -all ./client.go > client_test.go

Coverage

$ go test -cover - run tests and write coverage profile to cover.out

$ go tool cover -html=cover.out - view covered/not covered code in browser

go tool cover -help - for more

Testing Resources

• go-doc Testing
• go-cmd: Testing flags
• go-cmd: Testing Functions
• go-pkg: Package Testing
• Golang Book - Intro - Testing
• Lesser-Known Features of Go Test

Trouble-shooting

Cache Clean

Cleaning the go caches once fixed some “unknown import path”/“cannot find module providing package” errors (Package Clean)

$ go clean -cache -modcache -i -r

Resources

• golang.org/

  • Documentation
  • Effective Go
  • Commands
  • go
  • doc
  • Packages

• Golang Blog

  • Defer, Panic, and Recover
  • Go’s Declaration Syntax
  • Go Slices: usage and internals
  • Go Modules in 2019

• Golang Book

  • An Introduction to Programming in Go

• Golang Wiki

  • Code Review Comments
  • Learn Testing
  • Modules
  • How to use modules
  • Working with Go
• Awesome Go - A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software.
• Go by Example
• Go for Javascript Developers

• Blog Posts

  • Go: Are pointers a performance optimization?
  • Slices from the Ground Up
  • Using Pointers in Go