Pajk/go-playground

Golang Initial Setup

Read or watch Go basics to understand Go workspace and find out how to import other packages. Then continue with Effective Go.

Install Go using the official installation package or on MacOS using Homebrew brew install go.

GOPATH is set by default to $HOME/go.

VS Code works great with Go, just make sure you have the Go extension installed.

Explore

• Documentation Index
• Projects by category
• Online Playground

Data allocation

• Effective go
• Use make for slices, maps, and channels. It initialize the memory.
• Use new or composite literals for everything else. It zeores the memory.

Routers

• net/http (wiki)
• gorilla/mux
• gin-gonic/gin

Live reload

• codegangsta/gin

SQL

• database/sql (wiki)

Mongo

• mgo driver