mkdir if not exists using golang

I am learning golang(beginner) and I have been searching on both google and stackoverflow but I could not find an answer so excuse me if already asked, but how can I mkdir if not exists in golang.

For example in node I would use fs-extra with the function ensureDirSync (if blocking is of no concern of course)

fs.ensureDir("./public");

I've ran across two ways:

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Check for the directory's existence and create it if it doesn't exist:

if _, err := os.Stat(path); os.IsNotExist(err) {
    err := os.Mkdir(path, mode)
    // TODO: handle error
}

However, this is susceptible to a race condition: the path may be created by someone else between the os.Stat call and the os.Mkdir call.

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Attempt to create the directory and ignore any issues (ignoring the error is not recommended):

_ = os.Mkdir(path, mode)

Stack Overflow Q#37932551, score: 203