twist

twist

Twist generates canonical imports for your Go packages. Since it does not require a running server (ie in existing tools like uber-go/sally and rsc/go-import-redirector), Twist is particularly useful in conjunction with GitHub Pages.

A canonical import path allows you to make your package import a little fancier with a custom domain, for example:

- import "github.com/bobheadxi/zapx"
+ import "go.bobheadxi.dev/zapx"

usage

go get -u go.bobheadxi.dev/twist
#          [        source         ] [     canonical     ]
twist -o x github.com/bobheadxi/zapx go.bobheadxi.dev/zapx

Using the example in this repo:

twist -c twist.example.yml -o x -readme

To set up your own configuration:

twist config

You'll want to commit the generated files to the GitHub Page repository of the domain you want to use for your custom import path. For example, I used Twist to set up my go.bobheadxi.dev/... import paths using GitHub Pages. The repository is here, and has the following layout:

github.com/bobheadxi/go
|-- CNAME (go.bobheadxi.dev)
|-- README.md
|-- gobenchdata
|    +-- index.html (go.bobheadxi.dev/gobenchdata)
|-- package1
|    +-- index.html (go.bobheadxi.dev/package1)
+-- package2
     +-- index.html (go.bobheadxi.dev/package2)

GitHub Pages serves up the contents of the repository, allowing packages to be served with my custom domain:

go get go.bobheadxi.dev/gobenchdata

In your Go package, you'll need to update all import paths to use the new name.

When using Go Modules, you'll also need to update the module directive in your go.mod:

module go.bobheadxi.dev/twist

go 1.12

require ( ... )