Tag: Packages

Change Go Version in Mod

Picking up an old Go project, we wanted to update the desired version it should run on (mainly so when we deployed to our live systems it would use this version too). To do this, we updated the version within the go.mod file - the file which keeps track of both versions and packages used by the project. We used the command below:

#mod#version#project#edit#packages#heroku#directive

Update All Go Packages in Your Project

If you want to update all dependencies and packages within your project then the simplest way is to use the go get command which handles it all for us. Go modules (go mod) will handle most of the versioning of these packages, so deploying and sharing the project will keep the same package versions.

#packages#modules#dependencies#all#project#versioning#get#command

Run Tests in All Packages

Life can be simple when all your Go files are in the root folder. But when a project gets a bit bigger, you may want to store much of the logic in packages. The issue comes when our usual command of go test then no longer picks up our tests.

#tests#packages#all#suite#func#files#folders#run