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Go: Building Web Applications

By : Nathan Kozyra, Mat Ryer
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Go: Building Web Applications

By: Nathan Kozyra, Mat Ryer

Overview of this book

Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. It is a statically typed language with syntax loosely derived from that of C, adding garbage collection, type safety, some dynamic-typing capabilities, additional built-in types such as variable-length arrays and key-value maps, and a large standard library. This course starts with a walkthrough of the topics most critical to anyone building a new web application. Whether it’s keeping your application secure, connecting to your database, enabling token-based authentication, or utilizing logic-less templates, this course has you covered. Scale, performance, and high availability lie at the heart of the projects, and the lessons learned throughout this course will arm you with everything you need to build world-class solutions. It will also take you through the history of concurrency, how Go utilizes it, how Go differs from other languages, and the features and structures of Go's concurrency core. It will make you feel comfortable designing a safe, data-consistent, and high-performance concurrent application in Go. This course is an invaluable resource to help you understand Go's powerful features to build simple, reliable, secure, and efficient web applications.
Table of Contents (6 chapters)

Chapter 4. Command-line Tools to Find Domain Names

The chat application we built in the previous chapters is ready to take the world by storm, but not before we give it a home on the Internet. Before we invite our friends to join the conversation, we need to pick a valid, catchy, and available domain name that we can point to the server running our Go code. Instead of sitting in front of our favorite domain name provider for hours on end trying different names, we are going to develop a few command-line tools that will help us find the right one. As we do so, we will see how the Go standard library allows us to interface with the terminal and other executing applications, as well as explore some patterns and practices to build command-line programs.

In this chapter, you will learn:

  • How to build complete command-line applications with as little as a single code file
  • How to ensure that the tools we build can be composed with other tools using standard streams
  • How to interact with a...