Here are some tips how to write Go packages.

Name packages according to standards.

• Use only lowercase; no spaces, no dashes, no underscores, no uppercase.
• Avoid abbreviations if they aren't common knowledge.
• Avoid common variable names like buffer or buf.
• Avoid meaningless package names like util, common and shared.
• Keep package names short, so no networkinginitializators.

// bad
package util
func NewStringSet(...string) map[string]bool {...}
func SortStringSet(map[string]bool) []string {...}
...
// good
package stringset
func New(...string) map[string]bool {...}
func Sort(map[string]bool) []string {...}

Make packages as small as possible. A package with one type and the related methods is a good scope. One compiled program/library can contain as many internal packages as you want as long as there is a single main package, which should be at the project root. Usually, the more packages there are the better, as it forced you to divide your code to logical groups.

A single package can consist of any number of files.

# all of these are part of the `card` package, you can use import to incldue
# them all at once
card/
    cardnumber.go
    cardsuite.go
    cardsort.go

Name package's public parts from user's point of view.

// bad
http.HttpServer
time.TimeNow()

// good
http.Server
time.Now()
jpeg.Reader, bufio.Reader, csv.Reader.

Provide sensible defaults. If possible, provide default behaviour for your Go packages so the packages is usable right after import. The same pattern is used in multiple native packages e.g. log, flag and http native Go packages.

package mylogger

import "fmt"

// Real functionality and interface.
type MyLogger struct {}
func (self *MyLogger ) Log(str string) {
    fmt.Println(str)
}

// Setup for the simpler interface.
var mainMyLogger MyLogger;
func init() {
    mainMyLogger  = MyLogger{}
}

// Simpler interface for the default values.
func Log(str string) {
    mainMyLogger.Log(str);
}

// Usage example.
package main

import mylogger

func main() {
    mylogger.Log("Hello")
}

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