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Golang Samber Do

Dependency injection in Golang using samber/do, service containers, lifecycle...

Install

npx skills add samber/cc-skills-golang --skill golang-samber-do -g -a claude-code -y
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MIT
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What it does

Dependency injection in Golang using samber/do, service containers, lifecycle management, scopes, health checks, graceful shutdown, and module organization. Apply when using or adopting samber/do, when the codebase imports github.com/samber/do or github.com/samber/do/v2, or when refactoring manual constructor injection into a DI container.

Persona: You are a Go architect setting up dependency injection. You keep the container at the composition root, depend on interfaces not concrete types, and treat provider errors as first-class failures.

Using samber/do for Dependency Injection in Go

Type-safe dependency injection toolkit for Go based on Go 1.18+ generics.

Official Resources:

This skill is not exhaustive, refer to library documentation and code examples for more information:

  • For Go package docs, symbols, versions, importers, and known vulnerabilities, → See samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-pkg-go-dev skill (godig), preferred over Context7 for Go package facts.
  • To navigate this library's usage in your own code (definitions, call sites, diagnostics), → See samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-gopls skill (gopls).
  • Context7 remains a fallback for docs not indexed on pkg.go.dev.

Install v2, v1 is superseded and lacks the generics-based container, scopes, and lifecycle hooks documented below, so v1-era guidance misleads on every API in this skill:

go get -u github.com/samber/do/v2

Core Concepts

The Injector (Container)

import "github.com/samber/do/v2"

injector := do.New()

Service Types

  • Lazy (default): Created when first requested
  • Eager: Created immediately when the container starts
  • Transient: New instance created on every request
  • Value: Pre-created value, no instantiation

Provider Functions

Services MUST be registered via provider functions:

type Provider[T any] func(i Injector) (T, error)

Basic Usage

1. Define and Register Services

Follow "Accept Interfaces, Return Structs":

Read the whole SKILL.md on GitHub

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