grafana Go Programming Language
Guidelines for working effectively with Go projects.
Reading Dependency Source Files
To see source files from a dependency, or to answer questions about a dependency:
go mod download -json MODULE
Use the returned Dir path to read the source files.
Reading Documentation
Use go doc to read documentation for packages, types, functions, etc:
go doc foo.Bar # Documentation for a specific symbol
go doc -all foo # All documentation for a package
Running Programs
Use go run instead of go build to avoid leaving behind build artifacts:
go run . # Run the current package
go run ./cmd/foo # Run a specific command