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Setup local environment

• install golang: brew install go | yum install golang | apt-get install golang
• create folder for go packages: mkdir ~/go
• add auto load env: GOPATH=~/go; PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin

Setup IDE

• download idea https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/
• install golang plugin https://github.com/go-lang-plugin-org/go-lang-idea-plugin
• [optional] Komodo also support golang http://komodoide.com/

Tools and Libs

• Test framework: https://github.com/stretchr/testify

• Package manager: github.com/mattn/gom I prefer this one becuase it is simple and it is possible to store all vendors in local folder.

• Log manager: https://github.com/Sirupsen/logrus

• Monitoring: https://github.com/gocraft/health

• DB: https://github.com/gocraft/dbr

• Sidekiq compatible BackgroundJobs: https://github.com/jrallison/go-workers

• Libchan: http://blog.codeship.com/composable-go-services-using-libchan/

• Debugger: https://github.com/derekparker/delve

• Web Frameworks:

• https://revel.github.io/

• http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/

• https://github.com/gocraft/web

• https://github.com/ant0ine/go-json-rest

• Cache:

• https://github.com/golang/groupcache

• https://github.com/coocood/freecache

• Practice Go and share samples via:

  • http://play.golang.org/
  • http://gocode.io/

• Bootstrap project: http://go-bootstrap.io

• Always format your code before commit:

• Tutorial: http://blog.golang.org/go-fmt-your-code

• Hooks: https://golang.org/misc/git/pre-commit or https://github.com/edsrzf/gofmt-git-hook

Books, News and Tutorials

• Best practices: http://peter.bourgon.org/go-in-production/
• News: http://golangweekly.com/
• Books and Tutorials:
• https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html
• https://github.com/dariubs/GoBooks
• https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B6mIeMASod32VGo1eHdmbThISms. I started from "Programming in Go"
• https://github.com/mindreframer/golang-stuff
• https://gobyexample.com/
• http://soryy.com/blog/2014/common-mistakes-with-go-lang/
• http://thenewstack.io/make-a-restful-json-api-go/
• https://joshrendek.com/2015/09/golang-performance-tips
• https://joeshaw.org/net-context-and-http-handler/