Building, Versioning and Quality Control

In this section of the book we’re going shift our focus from writing code to managing and maintaining our project, and take steps to help automate common tasks and prepare our API for deployment.

Specifically, you’ll learn how to:

• Use a makefile to automate common tasks in your project, such as creating and executing migrations.
• Carry out quality control checks of your code using the go vet and staticcheck tools.
• Vendor third-party packages, in case they ever become unavailable in the future.
• Build and run executable binaries for your applications, reduce their size, and cross-compile binaries for different platforms.
• Burn-in a version number and build time to your application when building the binary.
• Leverage Git to generate automated version numbers as part of your build process.