dustinblackman/gomodrun

The forgotten go tool that executes and caches binaries included in go.mod files. This makes it easy to version cli tools in your projects such as golangci-lint and ginkgo that are versioned locked to what you specify in go.mod. Binaries are cached by go version and package version.

  # Run a linter
  gomodrun golangci-lint run

  # Convert a JSON object to a Go struct, properly passing in stdin.
  echo example.json | gomodrun gojson > example.go

  # Specifiy alternative root directory containing a go.mod and tools file.
  gomodrun -r ./alternative-tools-dir golangci-lint run

  # Clean your .gomodrun folder of unused binaries.
  gomodrun --tidy

curl -L "https://github.com/dustinblackman/gomodrun/archive/refs/heads/master.tar.gz" | tar zxvf - -C /tmp
cd /tmp/gomodrun-master/cmd/gomodrun
go install .

gomodrun works by using a tools.go (or any other name) file that sits in the root of your project that contains all the CLI dependencies you want bundled in to your go.mod. Note the // +build tools at the top of the file is required, and allows you to name your tools file anything you like.

tools.go

// +build tools

package myapp

import (
	_ "github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/golangci-lint"
	_ "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/ginkgo"
)

Run go build tools.go to add the dependencies to your go.mod. The build is expected to fail.

You can run your tools by prefixing gomodrun. A binary will be built and cached in .gomodrun in the root of your project, allowing all runs after the first to be nice and fast.

  gomodrun golangci-lint run

You can also use gomodrun as a library.

package main

import (
	"os"

	"github.com/dustinblackman/gomodrun"
)

func main() {
	exitCode, err := gomodrun.Run("golangci-lint", []string{"run"}, &gomodrun.Options{
		Stdin:   os.Stdin,
		Stdout:  os.Stdout,
		Stderr:  os.Stderr,
		Env:     os.Environ(),
		PkgRoot: "",
	})
}

MIT