Try out Athens

To quickly see Athens in action, follow these steps:

First, make sure you have Go v1.12+ installed, that GOPATH/bin is on your path, and that you have enabled the Go Modules feature.

Bash

PowerShell

Next, use git and Go to install and run the Athens proxy in a background process.

$ git clone https://github.com/gomods/athens
$ cd athens/cmd/proxy
$ go install
$ proxy &
[1] 37186
INFO[0000] Exporter not specified. Traces won't be exported
INFO[0000] Starting application at http://127.0.0.1:3000

Next, you will need to configure Go to use the Athens proxy!

Bash

export GOPROXY=http://127.0.0.1:3000

PowerShell

$env:GOPROXY = "http://127.0.0.1:3000"

Now, when you build and run this example application, go will fetch dependencies via Athens!

$ git clone https://github.com/athens-artifacts/walkthrough.git
$ cd walkthrough
$ go run .
go: finding github.com/athens-artifacts/samplelib v1.0.0
handler: GET /github.com/athens-artifacts/samplelib/@v/v1.0.0.info [200]
handler: GET /github.com/athens-artifacts/samplelib/@v/v1.0.0.mod [200]
go: downloading github.com/athens-artifacts/samplelib v1.0.0
handler: GET /github.com/athens-artifacts/samplelib/@v/v1.0.0.zip [200]
The 🦁 says rawr!

The output from go run . includes attempts to find the github.com/athens-artifacts/samplelib dependency. Since the proxy was run in the background, you should also see output from Athens indicating that it is handling requests for the dependency.

This should give you an overview of what using Athens is like!