GO BOILER

Prerequisites

• required Go 1.17 or Higher version
• recommended direnv, to allow all Go-based binaries to be local to this folder and not installed globally. For more details you can refer to this post.

Tools

Install the following tools:

• required Protocol Buffers Compiler, protoc (3.19.4 to date version):
  • Homebrew: brew install protobuf
  • Alpine 3.15: apk add protobuf-dev protobuf
  • Ubuntu 21.10: apt-get install protobuf-compiler libprotobuf-dev
• required buf CLI for linting and compiling:
  • go install github.com/bufbuild/buf/cmd/buf@v1.0.0
• required Protocol Buffer Plugin for Go:
  • go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@v1.27.1
• required gRPC Plugin for Go:
  • go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@v1.2.0
• recommended Code Formatting, clang-format, you can use find . -name '*.proto' | xargs clang-format -i
  • Homebrew: brew install clang-format (13.0.1 to date version):
  • Alpine 3.15: apk add clang-extra-tools
  • Ubuntu 21.10: apt-get install clang-format

Recommended docs to read:

• https://buf.build/explore