vscode-golang-docker is a Go development environment inside a Docker container. It consists of a Visual Studio Code and various extensions to help you write, build, test and debug Go application. It will also help you to write your own shell scripts, Dockerfile and Markdown by using linters and other support tools.
All this from the convinience of your IDE - Visual Studio Code.
Docker image is available on Docker Hub:
docker pull hvarga/vscode-golang-docker
You can also build it yourself:
./scripts/build-vscode-golang-docker.sh
After pull or build (described above), run the following script initialize and to start the container:
./scripts/run-vscode-golang-docker.sh [PROJECT_PATH]
Note that you need to have the script somewhere on your system. If you don't have it, install it using following commands:
wget https://github.com/hvarga/vscode-golang-docker/raw/master/scripts/run-vscode-golang-docker.sh -O /tmp/run-vscode-golang-docker.sh
chmod +x /tmp/run-vscode-golang-docker.sh
sudo mv /tmp/run-vscode-golang-docker.sh /usr/local/bin
Run it using following:
run-vscode-golang-docker.sh [PROJECT_PATH]
The script run-vscode-golang-docker.sh accepts an optional argument called PROJECT_PATH. PROJECT_PATH is a folder in which the source code of your Go application will be stored. PROJECT_PATH will also contain Visual Studio Code configuration data.
If this is your first time that you start run-vscode-golang-docker.sh script, it will take a little while to initialize the PROJECT_PATH, so be patient.
By default if not specifed, PROJECT_PATH will be set to $HOME/vscode-golang-docker.
After the script run-vscode-golang-docker.sh is finally started, it will give you a shell from which you can run Visual Studio Code by running:
code
Happy coding!