[Golang go work] #go #golang #gowork

go work.md

Create a new directory for your project.

Inside the directory git clone your projects.

Next, from within the project directory (where the individual projects are cloned within), create your go.work file.

You can do this in one of two ways:

go work init ./cli ./go-fastly

or

go work init 
go work use ./cli ./go-fastly

The latter is useful for changing the work file after you've started working.

You should end up with a file tree that looks something like this:

.
├── cli
│   ├── go.mod
├── go-fastly
│   ├── go.mod
├── go.work
├── go.work.sum

Now when you cd into one of the project directories (e.g. cd ./cli), and go run the code, you'll find it auto-magically identifies the dependency (e.g. ./go-fastly) and uses that instead of trying to pull the remote/real dependency.

Warning

This causes gopls in Neovim to report an error (although the LSP still works).
LSP[gopls]: Error SERVER_REQUEST_HANDLER_ERROR "... ENOENT: no such file or directory"