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Echo Quick Start Guide

By : Ben Huson
Book Image

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)

Basic handler routing

As you may recall, a URI path component determines the resource representation for a web application. Within the HTTP request message structure, not only do we have a target in the request line, but we also have the requested method as well. HTTP methods, or verbs, explain the intent of the request to act on the resource identified by the target. Within the realm of application development, the request method, in conjunction with the target resource identifier, will determine what application code the service is supposed to run. To this end, we will start by talking about how to add route mappings to your Echo project, and more importantly, how Echo uses the information in the request to run your handlers.

Adding routes

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