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Go Web Development Cookbook

By : Arpit Aggarwal
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Go Web Development Cookbook

By: Arpit Aggarwal

Overview of this book

Go is an open source programming language that is designed to scale and support concurrency at the language level. This gives you the liberty to write large concurrent web applications with ease. From creating web application to deploying them on Amazon Cloud Services, this book will be your one-stop guide to learn web development in Go. The Go Web Development Cookbook teaches you how to create REST services, write microservices, and deploy Go Docker containers. Whether you are new to programming or a professional developer, this book will help get you up to speed with web development in Go. We will focus on writing modular code in Go; in-depth informative examples build the base, one step at a time. You will learn how to create a server, work with static files, SQL, NoSQL databases, and Beego. You will also learn how to create and secure REST services, and create and deploy Go web application and Go Docker containers on Amazon Cloud Services. By the end of the book, you will be able to apply the skills you've gained in Go to create and explore web applications in any domain.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Creating your first template

Templates allow us to define placeholders for dynamic content that can be replaced with the values at runtime by a template engine. They can then be transformed into an HTML file and sent to the client. Creating templates in Go is fairly easy using Go's html/template package, which we will be covering in this recipe.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we are going to create a first-template.html with a couple of placeholders whose value will be injected by the template engine at runtime. Perform the following steps:

  1. Create first-template.html inside the templates directory by executing the following Unix command:
$ mkdir templates && cd templates && touch first-template.html...