Go vendoring outside $GOPATH

Question

I have a project which is built in Node.js/Express.js. I want to start to rewrite this to go/iris framework. I don't want to re-factor everything into my $GOPATH and I want to keep it together my express / go / docker files for this project.

I tried to clone iris framework's git repo into a ./vendor subfolder, but using import "github.com/kataras/iris" importing nothing.

Is there a package manager which is

• copying and installing packages and all of it's dependencies in my-project/vendor folder outside $GOPATH

• it can update these import packages

• go run/build/install outside $GOPATH

• there's now any new files in $GOPATH src/pkg/bin folder when I working on a project, except this package manager

• I can define dependency packages for a project like package.json file for node.js

Is there a go package manager like that?

Edit:

Running this with go command is not required.

Answer 1

Not possible with the current go tooling, but looks like we might get it in go 1.12 or bit later.

Proposal accepted:

cmd/go: modify the Go toolchain to work without GOPATH