Go Package CI/CD with GitHub Actions

• random-standup

  1 4 5.1 Go

  Discontinued Eliminate awkward pauses in standups

Here's the full workflow.

• setup-go

  4 1,304 6.3 TypeScript

  Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of Go

  

First, we have to checkout the repository in GitHub Actions using GitHub's own checkout action. Then, we have to set up the Go version using GitHub's setup-go action. GitHub Actions has 3 different OSes available for their runners, each with various Go versions, but it's safest to explicitly specify which Go version will be used.

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• virtual-environments

  54 6,399 9.8 PowerShell

  Discontinued GitHub Actions runner images [Moved to: https://github.com/actions/runner-images]

  

First, we have to checkout the repository in GitHub Actions using GitHub's own checkout action. Then, we have to set up the Go version using GitHub's setup-go action. GitHub Actions has 3 different OSes available for their runners, each with various Go versions, but it's safest to explicitly specify which Go version will be used.

• golangci-lint-action

  3 970 9.3 TypeScript

  Official GitHub action for golangci-lint from its authors

  

Finally, we can use golangci-lint's provided GitHub Action for linting - it runs golangci-lint on the workflow runner's clone of the repo and outputs an error code if any Go file in the repo fails rules of any linters in golangci-lint. Note that golangci-lint fails if the AST cannot be parsed (i.e. if there are any syntax errors), so it can also be used for checking syntax correctness, which itself is a good proxy for checking for merge conflict strings. We can fail-fast with any checks this way - there's no need to spin up a compilation and a go test invocation if there are syntax errors.

• action-gh-release

  7 3,603 7.5 TypeScript

  📦 :octocat: GitHub Action for creating GitHub Releases

Finally, we use a 3rd-party release creation Action for creating a release draft with the release notes and artifacts we just created:

• golangci-lint

  72 14,427 9.7 Go

  Fast linters Runner for Go

  

Test syntax by running a linting check with golangci-lint - it's the best linter (actually, I suppose it's a meta-linter since it invokes several separate linters) available for Go and slaps your wrist if you slip into some well-known antipatterns.

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