Support build tags for Go programs #730
Description
Related to an existing integration?
Yes
Existing integration
Golang
Overview
I am using Aspire to run a Go program that serves a Vue.js application and implements the API for the Vue.js application. I am using the embed package to embed the static Vue.js files into my Go application and then using the FileServeFS function to serve the files from the embedded file system.
When running my service with Aspire, instead of serving from the static file system, I would like to run the Vue.js development server as a child process and use Go's ReverseProxy to forward the requests to the NPM development server. By doing this, during development and testing, I can make changes to my Vue.js application and the changes can be rebuilt and served without me having to stop and restart everything.
I am implementing this in my Go program using Go's build tags. In my case, I am using the dev build tag to indicate that I want to run the development server instead of embedding the static files in the program.
Currently, there is no way to send a build tag to the go run command that GolangAppHostingExtension executes. The optional args is used to pass command line arguments to the Go program that iss being executed. I would like to extend the GolangAppHostingExtension.AddGolangApp method to add an optional buildTags string array. If present, the tags would be joined into a comma-separated list and passed to the go run command using the -tags command line argument.
Usage example
var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
builder.AddGolangApp("web", "../../web", buildTags: ["dev"])Breaking change?
No
Alternatives
I am not aware of any alternative approaches.
Additional context
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