How do go modules work with installable commands?

Question

I\'ve recently started with Go 1.11 and love the modules. Apart from runtime dependencies I need to work with go modules during the build, e.g. during go generate

Answer 1

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/25922 proved helpful for me, especially

when using build-only dependencies with modules the main point is version selection (not installing these!)

To avoid installing you can modify your //go:generate directive to something like:

//go:generate go run golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer ARGS

There is also the best practices repo: https://github.com/go-modules-by-example/index/blob/master/010_tools/README.md