golang-best-practices

name	golang-best-practices
description	MUST be used for Go tasks. Covers Go 1.21+, standard library, Go modules, concurrency, performance optimization, testing, and WebAssembly (GOOS=js, GOARCH=wasm). Load for any .go files work. Use when this capability is needed.
metadata	{"author":"belos-street"}

Go best practices, common gotchas, and performance optimization. Includes WebAssembly development.

Project & Package

• Standard Go project layout → See standard-go-project-layout
• Go modules and dependency management → See go-mod-dependency-management
• Go naming conventions → See go-naming-conventions

Error Handling

• Go-style error handling patterns → See error-handling-patterns
• Sentinel errors and error wrapping → See error-sentinel-wrapping
• Recover and panic best practices → See error-recover-panic

Types & Memory

• Value types vs pointers → See value-type-vs-pointer
• Understanding nil in Go → See go-nil-handling
• Memory management and GC → See memory-management-gc
• Escape analysis → See escape-analysis

Concurrency

• Goroutine lifecycle management → See goroutine-lifecycle
• Channel patterns → See channel-patterns
• Sync primitives (Mutex, RWMutex, Atomic) → See sync-primitives
• Common concurrency pitfalls → See concurrency-pitfalls

Interfaces

• Interface design principles → See interface-design
• Dependency injection → See dependency-injection
• Interface and nil → See interface-nil

Performance

• String and []byte optimization → See string-byte-optimization
• Slice tips and tricks → See slice-optimization
• Map optimization → See map-optimization
• Profiling with pprof → See pprof-usage

Testing

• Table-driven tests → See table-driven-tests
• Mocking techniques → See go-mocking
• Benchmarking → See benchmarking

Tooling

• Linting and formatting → See linting-formatting
• Documentation with godoc → See godoc-best-practices
• Build tags and conditional compilation → See build-tags

WebAssembly

• WASM basics and compilation → See wasm-basics
• JS interop with wasm_exec → See wasm-js-interop
• DOM manipulation → See wasm-dom-manipulation
• Memory management in WASM → See wasm-memory-management
• Callbacks and async → See wasm-callbacks-async
• WASM performance considerations → See wasm-performance
• Debugging WASM → See wasm-debugging
• Practical WASM use cases → See wasm-use-cases

Common Gotchas

• Loop variable closure → See loop-variable-closure
• Slice append behavior → See slice-append-behavior
• time.After memory leak → See time-after-leak
• HTTP client timeouts → See http-client-timeouts

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