By Mason Egger
Developer Advocate
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
Simplify your workflow
RegEx Pal: test your Javascript and PCRE regular expressions Getting started on DigitalOcean: simplify your cloud
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About the author
Mason is currently a Sr. Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean who specializes in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and Python.
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