Tired of remembering the names of the libraries you need on github? Tired of writing long commands like go get -u github.com/gomodule/redigo/redis? Then the gost is for you!

Go Starter (gost)

The command allows you to assign aliases for popular libraries and not remember long repository names.

Install

Require go 1.16.0 or later, to install run:

go install github.com/satmaelstorm/gost@latest

Common supported flags

-v - verbose output

-s - soft launch

--no-color - disable colored output

Rewrite Aliases

You can export env GOST_ALIASES to rewrite build-in aliases and export GOST_ADD_ALIASES to add and replace build-in aliases. For example: GOST_ALIASES="/home/user/gost.aliases.yaml" ./gost mod -s webserver

You can rewrite default aliases and bundles of aliases with your own - gost try to read file gost.aliases.yaml in a current directory to rewrite build-in aliases.

Also two flags present:

--aliases - file to full rewrite build-in aliases (include loaded from gost.aliases.yaml)

--aliases-add - file to add and replace build-in aliases

Reading and replacing order:

1. From env
2. From file in current directory
3. From flags

Multi-threads (experimental)

You can run ghost mod with --threads = N for multithreading, but then the order in which the go get is executed is not guaranteed, there may be side effects.

Supported commands

mod

Do go get -u commands with use of aliases and bundles of aliases.

Usage: gost mod module1 module2 ...

Sample (with soft launch):

gost mod webserver -s
    
Use soft Launch

/usr/local/go/bin/go get -u github.com/valyala/fasthttp
/usr/local/go/bin/go get -u github.com/fasthttp/router
/usr/local/go/bin/go get -u github.com/stretchr/testify
/usr/local/go/bin/go get -u github.com/satmaelstorm/envviper
/usr/local/go/bin/go mod download

If there is strictly one / in the name of the module - it is perceived as a github module:

gost mod tidwall/rtree
Use soft Launch

/usr/local/go/bin/go get -u github.com/tidwall/rtree
/usr/local/go/bin/go mod download

But gost recognize gopkg.in and golang.org:

gost mod gopkg.in/yaml.v1 -s
Use soft Launch

/usr/local/go/bin/go get -u gopkg.in/yaml.v1
/usr/local/go/bin/go mod download

Names with more than one / - are sent to go get unchanged:

gost mod gopkg.in/Graylog2/go-gelf.v1 -s
Use soft Launch

/usr/local/go/bin/go get -u gopkg.in/Graylog2/go-gelf.v1
/usr/local/go/bin/go mod download

start

Starts new project in dir --package-name in current dir, do mod init and all, what do gost mod command.