How to build and run Go projects

There are various ways to build and run Go applications. In this section, I'll show you what I used to build the example Go projects for this book.

TL;DR

Use the cd command to direct to your project root directory. Run . init once.

Ready to run your app? Did you change a (non-standard library) import statement? If so, run glide-update.

To run your app, execute go-run.

Development workflow

This is what our development workflow looks like:

We put cd into our project source code root directory and run init. Then, we updated code, run the glide-update and go-run commands, and repeat until done. Note that if we only added imports for packages from Go's standard library, we won't need to run the glide-update command, though running the glide-update command won't hurt.

Dot init features and benefits

The dot init solution will do the following:

1. Create a link to this project root directory in your MY_DEV_DIR directory.
2. Verify that you are running the correct version of Go.
3. Verify...