Setting up your Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for work with Giant Swarm

You are free to choose the IDE that’s best for you. IF you are lucky, others at Giant Swarm are using the same tool, so you can find proven configuration here.

Feel free to share your IDE configuration tipps here.

Visual Studio Code

Golang specific

1. Have the official Go extension (ID: golang.go) published by the Go Team at Google installed.
2. Add the following user configuration (On MacOS, go to Code > Settings > Settings or hit Cmd + ,. Filter the list by @ext:golang.go).
   1. In the Go: Lint Tool setting, select golangci-lint. When you are informed that you must install the tool, hit the Install button and wait for a few moments.
   2. In the Go: Lint Flags setting, add these items:
      • -E=gosec
      • -E=goconst

The Go extension is by default configured to build your current workspace on changes. You can also trigger builds, test runs etc. via the command palette (Cmd + Shift + P). Enter Go: into the palette to see which actions are offered.

Problems found in build and linting will show up in the problems list. You can open this view via the command palette (Cmd + Shift + P) and selecting Problems: Focus on Problems View.

There is also a dedicated Go main menu item with some potentially useful actions.

Synopsis

If you prefer editing the raw settings JSON, open the command palette (Cmd + Shift + P) and select/enter Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON). Then add/set the following top level entries:

    // Sets golangci-lint as the linter
    "go.lintTool": "golangci-lint",

    // Adds command line flags for golangci-lint
    "go.lintFlags": [
        "-E=gosec",
        "-E=goconst"
    ]