A clean, simple Go copier template.
The template lets you choose whether you want to create a binary executable program (e.g. a CLI) or an importable library and the generated files will be tailored accordingly! For example, a binary project will use goreleaser and have a build target in the task runner to compile it.
Note
If you choose a binary, by default the release GitHub action will use goreleaser to create a homebrew cask for your program. This requires you to have a homebrew tap repo under your username like FollowTheProcess/homebrew-tap and to set a repository secret called HOMEBREW_TAP_TOKEN containing a GitHub personal access token with permissions to write to that repo
The project template comes with a ready to go GitHub Actions configuration file which automates all your code quality checks:
- Testing with
go test - Linting with golangci-lint or staticcheck
- Formatting with
go fmt - Dependency updates with Dependabot or Renovate
Automation with Task
Very clean and simple Taskfile.yml to automate project maintenance and development
Series of helpful labels that you can use to categorise issues and pull requests. These come in especially handy when combined with the Release Drafter workflow!
Automatically generate release notes with the [Release Drafter] workflow. This uses the labels from issues and pull requests to draft pretty and detailed release notes for your GitHub releases.
This is automatically run when you push a new tag to main.
uv tool install copier- Call copier with this template and answer all the questions
copier copy gh:FollowTheProcess/go-template /path/to/put/your/new/project-
Create a git repo and start developing
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Make a first commit to set up the github repo
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That should be it! from now on everything will be handled automatically. All you need to do is write code, tests and docs! Your code will be style checked, your tests will be run etc.