Technical requirements

In order to proceed with all the recipes in this chapter, configure your environment according to these steps:

1. Download and install Go 1.12.6 or greater on youroperatingsystem from https://golang.org/doc/install.
2. Open a Terminal or console application; create a project directory such as ~/projects/go-programming-cookbook and navigate to this directory. All code will be run and modified from this directory.
3. Clone the latest code into~/projects/go-programming-cookbook-original and optionally work from that directory rather than typing the examples manually, as follows:

          $ git clone [email protected]:PacktPublishing/Go-Programming-Cookbook-Second-Edition.git go-programming-cookbook-original
        

4. Install the curl command from https://curl.haxx.se/download.html.