Using Modules and Packages in Go

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If you work with Go, you deal with packages and modules all the time. In Go, a package is a directory of .go files, and packages form the basic building blocks of a Go program. Using packages, you organize your code into reusable units.

A module, on the other hand, is a collection of Go packages, with dependencies and…