Tech Talk

Build Your First Command Line Tool in Go

Updated on November 1, 2021
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By Mason Egger

Developer Advocate

Build Your First Command Line Tool in Go

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About the Talk

Command line tools are amazing. They are simple, easy to automate, and fun to build. In this Tech Talk, we’ll build a simple command line tool that helps us run our D&D campaign, package it up, and set up GitHub actions to build our tool.

What You’ll Learn

  • How to build a command line tool in go
  • How to package your command line tool and upload it to GitHub releases

This Talk Is Designed For

Any developer who wants to build a command line application

Prerequisites

A basic understanding of Golang and how to setup a Golang environment

Resources

Golang

Golang documentation How to code in Go [eBook on DigitalOcean Community] The Go Programming Language [Book] How To Use the Flag Package in Go [DigitalOcean Tutorial] Go: The Complete Developer’s Guide, by Stephen Grider [Udemy]

GitHub Actions

GoReleaser Action

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About the authors
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Developer Advocate

Mason is currently a Sr. Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean who specializes in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and Python.

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