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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)

Providing Templates and Static Content

A large portion of web application development involves the rendering of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), as well as other dynamic and static content in order to provide an interface for which the users can interact with an application. Within this chapter, we will explore Echo's capabilities regarding static content delivery and create dynamic content that will be rendered on the server side using templates. We will take an inventory of how Echo can help us with the following tasks:

  • Serve static content and files from a particular directory on the server
  • Create dynamic templates from any template library
  • Interact with the Echo web application from within the templates

With these features at your disposal, you will be able to pull together a functional user experience quickly using server-side rendering of dynamic content. You will...