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Echo Quick Start Guide

By : Ben Huson
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Echo Quick Start Guide

By: Ben Huson

Overview of this book

Echo is a leading framework for creating web applications with the Go language.  This book will show you how to develop scalable real-world web apps, RESTful services, and backend systems with Echo.  After a thorough understanding of the basics, you'll be introduced to all the concepts for a building real-world web system with Echo. You will start with the the Go HTTP standard library, and setting up your work environment. You will move on to Echo handlers, group routing, data binding, and middleware processing. After that, you will learn how to test your Go application and use templates.  By the end of this book you will be able to build your very own high performance apps using Echo. A Quick Start Guide is a focussed, shorter title which provides a faster paced introduction to a technology. They are for people who don’t need all the detail at this point in their learning curve. The presentation has been streamlined to concentrate on the things you really need to know, rather than everything.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Technical requirements

You will be required to know Go programming language, also basics of web application framework. You will also need to install Git, in order use the Git repository of this book. And finally, ability to develop with an IDE on the command line.

The code files of this chapter can be found on GitHub:
https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Echo-Essentials/tree/master/chapter3

Check out the following video to see the code in action:
https://goo.gl/SPqBes