cookiecutter-golang

Features

Generous Makefile with management commands
Uses glide for dependency management

Optional Integrations

Can use viper for env var config
Can use logrus for logging
Can creates dockerfile for building go binary and dockerfile for final go binary (no code in final container)
If docker is used adds docker management commands to makefile
Option of TravisCI, CircleCI or None

Constraints

Uses glide as only option for depency management
Only maintained 3rd party libraries are used.

This project now uses docker multistage builds you need at least docker version v17.05.0-ce to use the docker file in this template, you can read more about multistage builds here.

Usage

Let's pretend you want to create a project called "echoserver". Rather than starting from scratch maybe copying some files and then editing the results to include your name, email, and various configuration issues that always get forgotten until the worst possible moment, get cookiecutter to do all the work.

First, get Cookiecutter. Trust me, it's awesome:

$ pip install cookiecutter

alternatively you can install cookiecutter with homebrew:

$ brew install cookiecutter

finally to run it based on this template just:

$ cookiecutter https://github.com/lacion/cookiecutter-golang.git

You will be asked about your basic info (name, project name, app name, etc.). This info will be used to customize your new project.

Warning: After this point, change 'Luis Morales', 'lacion', etc to your own information.

Answer the prompts with your own desired options. For example:

full_name [Luis Morales]: Luis Morales
github_username [lacion]: lacion
app_name [mygolangproject]: echoserver
project_short_description [A Golang project.]: Awesome Echo Server
docker_hub_username [lacion]: lacion
docker_image [lacion/docker-alpine:latest]: lacion/docker-alpine:latest
docker_build_image [lacion/docker-alpine:gobuildimage]: lacion/docker-alpine:gobuildimage
use_docker [y]: y
use_git [y]: y
use_logrus_logging [y]: y
use_viper_config [y]: y
Select use_ci:
1 - travis
2 - circle
3 - none
Choose from 1, 2, 3 [1]: 1

Enter the project and take a look around:

$ cd echoserver/
$ ls

Run make help to see the available management commands, or just run make build to build your project.

$ make help
$ make build
$ ./bin/echoserver

Projects build with cookiecutter-golang