'Go Mod File Not Found in Current Directory'

After banging my head against a brick wall for the best part of half an hour, I finally figured out how to solve:

go: no modules were found in the current workspace; see 'go help work'

I was trying to run a main.go file using

go run .

But couldn't get the issue to go away.

Usually when working with Go projects nowadays you would do something like:

mkdir myproject
cd myproject
touch main.go
go mod init github.com/<USERNAME>/myproject
go mody tidy
go run .

If any of these errors come up:

go: no modules were found in the current workspace; see 'go help work'

or:

main.go:7:5: no required module provides package github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea: go.mod file not found in current directory or any parent directory; see 'go help modules'

Then I would check the following:

• Check go.mod actually exists
• Try setting the following: export GO111MODULE='auto' (see ref here)
• Check if any go.work files exist. This was my issue - I had one in my root directory, which I had to remove. Then running my Go file worked!

Even ChatGPT struggled with this one 😄