How to import local packages in go?

Well, I figured out the problem. Basically Go starting path for import is $HOME/go/src

So I just needed to add myapp in front of the package names, that is, the import should be:

import (
    "log"
    "net/http"
    "myapp/common"
    "myapp/routers"
)

If you are using Go 1.5 above, you can try to use vendoring feature. It allows you to put your local package under vendor folder and import it with shorter path. In your case, you can put your common and routers folder inside vendor folder so it would be like

myapp/
--vendor/
----common/
----routers/
------middleware/
--main.go

and import it like this

import (
    "common"
    "routers"
    "routers/middleware"
)

This will work because Go will try to lookup your package starting at your project’s vendor directory (if it has at least one .go file) instead of $GOPATH/src.

FYI: You can do more with vendor, because this feature allows you to put "all your dependency’s code" for a package inside your own project's directory so it will be able to always get the same dependencies versions for all builds. It's like npm or pip in python, but you need to manually copy your dependencies to you project, or if you want to make it easy, try to look govendor by Daniel Theophanes

For more learning about this feature, try to look up here

Understanding and Using Vendor Folder by Daniel Theophanes

Understanding Go Dependency Management by Lucas Fernandes da Costa

I hope you or someone else find it helpfully