go/template provides a blueprint for production-ready Go project layouts.

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• Makefile for most common tasks
• optimized Dockerfile
• golangci-lint default configuration
• pre-push git hook to ensure no linting issues
• gRPC support
• folder structure based on github.com/golang-standards/project-layout
• enforced default packages
  • log/slog for logging
  • go.uber.org/automaxprocs to be safe in container environments (see this article for more information)

If you have Go 1.21+, you can directly install by running:

go install github.com/schwarzit/go-template/cmd/gt@latest

Based on your go configuration the go/template binary can be found in $GOPATH/bin or $HOME/go/bin in case $GOPATH is not set. Make sure to add the respective directory to your $PATH. For more information see go docs for further information. Run go env to view your current configuration.

Download the desired version for your operating system and processor architecture from the go-template releases page. Make the file executable and place it in a directory available in your $PATH.

go/template's gt CLI requires at least the following executables on $PATH to run succesfully:

• Go >= 1.21
• Git

These are used at the end of gt new's execution to initialize Git and Go modules in the newly created project repository.

Use the template to generate your repo:

gt new

Initialize the project:

cd <your project>
make all

To get an overview of all options that can be set for the template you can take a look at the options docs, run the CLI or check out the testing example values file.

If you want to contribute to go/template please have a look at our contribution guidelines.

The release process is described in the release docs.