videos VS go-cmp

You can also do something similar with direnv for example (see 1 and 2); and even better if you use the tools.go paradigm then you can have different versions of your binaries relative to your project as well.

Example for reference.

Please refer to the full example code for more details.

There's a simple CLI tool I built for requesting OpenWeather information using their API, please refer to the final repository for actually running the full examples.

You don't mention what package you're using, but if you're using github.com/go-redis/redis/ you can marshal your struct using encoding/go and then use the SET and SET commands because for Redis everything is bytes, see https://github.com/MarioCarrion/videos/blob/main/2021/03/11-golang-microservices-caching-redis/redis.go I have video covering that exactly: https://youtu.be/wj6-w0DLKRw

The full code example mentioned in this post is available on Github, please make sure to read the README for specifics.

The code of the examples below are available on Github.

Below there are some code snippets, please refer to the final repository for actually running the complete code examples.

Repository including the code example.

This made me think of a couple other interesting things:

1. you can change which algorithm is used in git diff as multiple are supported

https://luppeng.wordpress.com/2020/10/10/when-to-use-each-of...

2. Google has an edit graph implementation in Go in the cmp package

https://github.com/google/go-cmp/blob/master/cmp/internal/di...

Assertion libraries that people seem to love: - testify (my favorite) - go-cmp is a more barebones library - gotest.tools -- I have never used this but some swear by it

it uses https://github.com/google/go-cmp instead of reflect.DeepEqual

When I use functional arguments, I either prefix all of the options with the same prefix or put them in a dedicated package (like cmpopts) to help the IDE.

Checking for equality in tests: https://github.com/google/go-cmp

oklog/ulid to generate IDs. coreos/go-oidc for validating JWTs I get from auth. google/go-cmp for comparing structs in tests (unless the project is already using Testify). spf13/pflag because life's too short for Go's flag handling. getkin/kin-openapi for validating reqests/responses against my OpenAPI spec (in tests).

One thing to keep in mind about reflect.DeepEqual is because of the way it is implemented you could get positive results when the values are not actually the same, see this comment for reference.