Appendix. Good Practices for a Stable Go Environment
by Mat Ryer, Mario Castro Contreras, Vladimir Vivien
Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects
- Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects
- Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects
- Credits
- Preface
- 1. Module 1
- 1. A First Step in Go
- 2. Go Language Essentials
- 3. Go Control Flow
- 4. Data Types
- 5. Functions in Go
- 6. Go Packages and Programs
- 7. Composite Types
- 8. Methods, Interfaces, and Objects
- 9. Concurrency
- 10. Data IO in Go
- 11. Writing Networked Services
- 12. Code Testing
- 2. Module 2
- 1. Ready... Steady... Go!
- A little bit of history
- Installing Go
- Starting with Hello World
- Integrated Development Environment - IDE
- Types
- Variables and constants
- Operators
- Flow control
- Functions
- Arrays, slices, and maps
- Visibility
- Zero-initialization
- Pointers and structures
- Interfaces
- Testing and TDD
- Libraries
- The Go get tool
- Managing JSON data
- Go tools
- Contributing to Go open source projects in GitHub
- Summary
- 2. Creational Patterns - Singleton, Builder, Factory, Prototype, and Abstract Factory Design Patterns
- Singleton design pattern - having a unique instance of a type in the entire program
- Builder design pattern - reusing an algorithm to create many implementations of an interface
- Factory method - delegating the creation of different types of payments
- Abstract Factory - a factory of factories
- Prototype design pattern
- Summary
- 3. Structural Patterns - Composite, Adapter, and Bridge Design Patterns
- 4. Structural Patterns - Proxy, Facade, Decorator, and Flyweight Design Patterns
- 5. Behavioral Patterns - Strategy, Chain of Responsibility, and Command Design Patterns
- 6. Behavioral Patterns - Template, Memento, and Interpreter Design Patterns
- Template design pattern
- Description
- Objectives
- Example - a simple algorithm with a deferred step
- Requirements and acceptance criteria
- Unit tests for the simple algorithm
- Implementing the Template pattern
- Anonymous functions
- How to avoid modifications on the interface
- Looking for the Template pattern in Go's source code
- Summarizing the Template design pattern
- Memento design pattern
- Interpreter design pattern
- Summary
- Template design pattern
- 7. Behavioral Patterns - Visitor, State, Mediator, and Observer Design Patterns
- 8. Introduction to Gos Concurrency
- 9. Concurrency Patterns - Barrier, Future, and Pipeline Design Patterns
- 10. Concurrency Patterns - Workers Pool and Publish/Subscriber Design Patterns
- 1. Ready... Steady... Go!
- 3. Module 3
- 1. Chat Application with Web Sockets
- 2. Adding User Accounts
- 3. Three Ways to Implement Profile Pictures
- 4. Command-Line Tools to Find Domain Names
- 5. Building Distributed Systems and Working with Flexible Data
- 6. Exposing Data and Functionality through a RESTful Data Web Service API
- 7. Random Recommendations Web Service
- 8. Filesystem Backup
- 9. Building a Q&A Application for Google App Engine
- The Google App Engine SDK for Go
- Google Cloud Datastore
- Entities and data access
- Google App Engine users
- Transactions in Google Cloud Datastore
- Querying in Google Cloud Datastore
- Votes
- Casting a vote
- Exposing data operations over HTTP
- Running apps with multiple modules
- Deploying apps with multiple modules
- Summary
- 10. Micro-services in Go with the Go kit Framework
- 11. Deploying Go Applications Using Docker
- Appendix. Good Practices for a Stable Go Environment
- Bibliography
Writing Go code is a fun and enjoyable experience, where compile-time errors rather than being a pain actually guide you to write robust, high-quality code. However, every now and then, you will encounter environmental issues that start to get in the way and break your flow. While you can usually resolve these issues after some searching and a little tweaking, setting up your development environment correctly goes a long way in reducing problems, allowing you to focus on building useful applications.
In this chapter, we are going to install Go from scratch on a new machine and discuss some of the environmental options we have and the impact they might have in the future. We will also consider how collaboration might influence some of our decisions as well as what impact open sourcing our packages might have.
Specifically, we are going to:
- Install Go on your development machine
- Learn what the
GOPATHenvironment variable is for and discuss a sensible approach for its use - Learn about the Go tools and how to use them to keep the quality of our code high
- Learn how to use a tool to automatically manage our imports
- Think about on save operations for our
.gofiles and how we can integrate the Go tools as part of our daily development - Look at some popular code editor options to write Go code
The best way to install Go is to use one of the many installers available online at https://golang.org/dl/. Go to the Go website and click on Download, and then look for the latest 1.x version for your computer. The Featured downloads section at the top of the page contains links to the most popular versions, so yours will probably be in that list.
The code in this book has been tested with Go 1.7, but any 1.x release will work. For future versions of Go (2.0 and higher), you may need to tweak the code as major version releases may well contain breaking changes.
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