Install Anetos

Since v0.3.0

Anetos needs Go and its command-line tool, anetos, which creates projects and writes code.

Go

Install Go 1.26 or later from go.dev/dl, then check:

go version   # go version go1.26.x …

Nothing else is required: the default database, SQLite, is built into the app (in pure Go, so no C compiler either), and the views’ compiler, templ, comes with each project.

The anetos tool

go install anetos.dev/anetos/cli/cmd/anetos@latest
anetos version

go install puts it in $(go env GOPATH)/bin (usually ~/go/bin): add that folder to your PATH if anetos isn’t found.

You use this copy once per project, for anetos new. Each project then pins its own version of the tool in go.mod, and you run it there as go tool anetos, so everyone working on the project uses the same one.

Upgrading

go install anetos.dev/anetos/cli/cmd/anetos@latest again updates the tool for new projects. A project upgrades its own copy with Anetos: see Upgrading.

Next: Set up your editor.