Vim/Neovim is my IDE for day-to-day work. My vimrc file can be found here.

This article is all about Vim(not Neovim), and I assume that you have already configured Vim as your code editor.

Okay, let’s get started by installing fatih/vim-go plugin with your favorite vim plugin manager.

After that, if you have Go installed correctly on your machine already, you will be able to run :GoInstallBinaries.

Next, install coc.nvim plugin, which is a great language server host for Vim.

For Neovim, I would recommend to use Nvim LSP client, which is more awesome than coc-nvim in my opinion.

Now, you will need a coc.nvim extension called coc-go, which will serve as your Go language server. It can be done by this vim command: :CocInstall coc-go.

You can install some other language server extensions along with coc-go, like coc-tsserver, coc-json, etc.

The next step is to configure the installed plugins properly. You can do it just by adding below scripts to your vimrc file:

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" disable all linters as that is taken care of by coc.nvim
let g:go_diagnostics_enabled = 0
let g:go_metalinter_enabled = []

" don't jump to errors after metalinter is invoked
let g:go_jump_to_error = 0

" run go imports on file save
let g:go_fmt_command = "goimports"

" automatically highlight variable your cursor is on
let g:go_auto_sameids = 0
" for syntax highlighting
let g:go_highlight_types = 1
let g:go_highlight_fields = 1
let g:go_highlight_functions = 1
let g:go_highlight_function_calls = 1
let g:go_highlight_operators = 1
let g:go_highlight_extra_types = 1
let g:go_highlight_build_constraints = 1
let g:go_highlight_generate_tags = 1

SHIFT + K will show documentation for every func you want to know about.

And that’s pretty much it. Try and edit some go files with your awesome IDE.

Happy coding, Gophers! 😎