Use the cookiecutter-go template to scaffold a new golang project.
| Repository | https://bitbucket.org/greenguavalabs/cookiecutter-go | |
| Pre-requisites | Local install: | |
| make | ||
| Docker and Docker Compose | ||
Usage
Install cookiecutter command line:
pip install cookiecutter
Switch to a project folder and generate the `cookiecutter` template:
cookiecutter bb:greenguavalabs/cookiecutter-go.git
Features
Development environment
The cookiecutter-go template generates a Docker based development environment for golang projects. The following make tasks are available to operate the development environment.
Manage the development environment:
* make init – Bring up the docker container
* make clean – Stop and remove docker container
Verify and test project code:
* make bins – Build all project binaries
* make lint – Run lint tools on all project files
* make test – Run all project test
CLI
The template provides you the option to generate golang packages for building a command line app using the github.com/spf13/cobra framework.
To generate the cli packages chose 1 at the prompt below:
Select cli:
1 - yes
2 - no
Choose from 1, 2 [1]: