Notes: Golang Makefile

This Makefile consists of all the important commands required by developers and DevOps team for any Golang project:

Run make in the terminal to go through all the available commands:

The commands include:

• build commands to build binaries for the current system and various other platform architectures and OS.

• setup commands to set up dev dependencies and packages required for linting, documentation, etc.

• docs commands to generate documentation on swagger and start local swagger UI.

• formatting commands to format go files.

• test and coverage commands to output status of unit tests, benchmarks, and code coverage in different available formats like JSON, HTML, etc.

• static check commands to find security and linting issues in code in different available formats like JSON, HTML, etc.

• run commands to run the application for different environments, dev, staging and prod, etc.

• clean commands to run cleanup on go application and by removing generated binaries and reports.

• docker commands to build, run, remove... Docker image and container.

• help command to open up the above terminal output.