alnoda-workspaces/workspaces/go-workspace

Go workspace

Containerized isolated portable development environment for Go programming language projects.

Start

docker run --name space-1 -d -p 8020-8040:8020-8040 --restart=always alnoda/go-workspace

open localhost:8020 in browser.

Features

• Go
• Code-server - open source version of popular Visual Studio Code IDE. Codeserver has VS-Code extensions and works in browser.
• Alnoda workspace features

Links

Alnoda docs
Alnoda Hub

Example: hello world

Check Go version

go version

Create new Go project

mkdir myProject/
cd myProject
go mod init myProject

Create file main.go

package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
  fmt.Println("Hello Go")
}

Then test it using the go run command

go run main.go 

Dependencies

Go Modules - Go’s dependency management system that makes dependency version information explicit and easier to manage.

Create new Go project

mkdir simpleserver/
cd simpleserver
go mod init simpleserver

Adding a remote module as a dependency manually:

go get github.com/spf13/cobra@latest

Check go.mod file

cat go.mod

Create file main.go

package main
import "github.com/gin-gonic/gin"

func main() {
    r := gin.Default()
    r.GET("/", func(c *gin.Context) {
        c.JSON(200, gin.H{
                "message": "pong",
        })
    })
    r.Run() 
}

To add module requirements and sums execute

go mod tidy

Run, build and install

• go run - to quickly test your go code and to check the output. But internally it compiles your code and builds an executable binary in a temporary location, launches that temp exe-file and finally cleans it when your app exits.
• go build - compile and builds executable in current directory.
• go install - will compile and move the executable to executable directory included in $PATH, so that you can run this executable from any path on the terminal.

Run the simple server with

export PORT=8026
go run main.go

Open Quickstart page, go to "My apps" and use port 8026 shortcut to open your web app

Build executable locally

go build

This will create an executable simpleserver in the same folder.

Build and move to executable folder

go install

Now you can execute anywhere in terminal

export PORT=8026
simpleserver

and the server will start