Getting started with Testcontainers for Go — Initialize the project
Start by creating a Go project. This guide uses the jackc/pgx PostgreSQL driver to interact with the Postgres database and the testcontainers-go Postgres module to spin up a Postgres Docker instance for testing. It also uses testify for running multiple tests as a suite and for writing assertions. I
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Start by creating a Go project.
This guide uses the jackc/pgx PostgreSQL driver to interact with the Postgres database and the testcontainers-go Postgres module to spin up a Postgres Docker instance for testing. It also uses testify for running multiple tests as a suite and for writing assertions.
Install these dependencies
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