Go Modules: The Best of Both Worlds

Sat, 06 Apr 2019 22:32:35 -0400

We recently started using go modules at work to handle dependencies. The experience has been mostly great, but unfortunately a lot of tooling hasn’t added support for modules. Most of the team uses vscode, which depends on module support in open-source tooling, some of which is incomplete. At the time of writing, refactoring/rename tools don’t work, and many of the other tools are very slow when modules are enabled. I wanted to find a way to use modules for dependency management, but use GOPATH for development. It turns out that it’s fairly easy to get the best of both worlds if you follow a few simple rules:

Golang on Brandon Dimcheff

Go Modules: The Best of Both Worlds