cobra-cli-quickstart

This is a simple cobra cli quickstart project written in Go. The aim of the repo is to provide a starting point for a new Go cli project.

The project provides main.go and a cmd/root.go files that form a starting point for a cli. The cobra cli can the be used to create additional commands.

Makefile

A Makefile is provided to test, build and verify the project. Additionally the Makefile will allow the project to be distributed as three separate binaries covering, Linux, MacOS and Windows.

Managing Dependencies

The dependency management is fulfilled through go modules. The GO111MODULE environment variable should be set to on

export GO111MODULE=on

To download the dependencies execute the dependencies target. This will download the dependencies into the Go cache.

make dependencies

To vendor the dependencies into the location project execute the vendor-dependencies target. This will download the dependencies into a vendor directory within the project.

make vendor-dependencies

To remove the vendor directory execute the clean-dependencies target. This will delete the vendor directory.

make clean-dependencies

Building the Project

To build the project execute the build target. The binary will be placed in a bin directory.

make build

To execute the binary the following command can be executed at the root of the project.

./bin/cobra-cli-quickstart

Testing the Project

To test the project execute the test target.

make test

Creating a Distribution

To build a distribution of the project execute the dist target. The default behaviour is to build linux, darwin and windows distributions. Distributions are made up of a compressed tar file under the dist directory.

make dist

To override the default list of distributions a variable called PLATFORMS can be defined. The following example builds darwin and windows distributions

PLATFORMS="darwin windows" make dist

Individual distributions can be created by using the distribution name. For example darwin, linux or windows can be built using the following commands.

make darwin
make linux
make windows

All of the binaries built into a directory structure under the bin directory. The structure reflects the operating system and architecture. For example darwin amd64 binaries are built into the following structure

cobra-cli-quickstart
|-- bin
    |-- darwin
        |-- amd64
            |-- cobra-cli-quickstart

Cleaning the Project

To clean the project execute the clean target. If the bin or dist directories were previously created then they will be deleted. The cleaning of the vendor directory is handled by the clean-dependencies

make clean

Additional targets

The following is a brief list of additional targets that can be executed against the project.

• make bootstrap
  • Ensures that add tools are present in the build environment. For example golint.
• make install / make uninstall
  • Installs or uninstalls the built binary into the $GOPATH/bin directory.
• make fmt
  • Executes go fmt over the project.
• make benchmark
  • Executes any benchmark tests against the project.
• make check
  • Executes go fmt and golint against the project.

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to the project.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

• Trent Rosenbaum - Initial work - trentrosenbaum

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the ? License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• List any people or projects that have inspiration this project