vendor directory in Go

Overview

In this section we'll be talking about the vendor directory feature in Go.

Since Go 1.5, the Go team decided to make our life's easier and allowed the community to develop package managers, so we all enjoy downloading and installing specific locked versions of software, without breaking our precious applications.

By the end of this tutorial you will perfectly know what the vendor directory is in Go and how to make use of it.

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Vendor directory in Go

More info

go help importpath

go help goproxy

Resources 💎

• Go 1.5 vendor experiment
• Vendor directories
• Import path checking
• Go Modules
• VGO module
• Athens project
• Athens project - GitHub
• Athens docker image
• Go project structure
• Go project layout

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