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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)

Group routing

Alluded to earlier, there exists a grouping capability for defined routes within the Echo framework. Grouping of routes allows for simple logical groupings of sets of resources with a base prefix. A great example that works well with grouped routes is when you wish to have a target resource path versioned API, such as providing /v1/login and /v1/logout, as well as /v2/login and /v2/logout. This happens to be a very common way in which developers can prevent breakage of their API from major changes to the API. Typically, if the schema of the request or response changes, it is a best practice to create a new version of those resource targets. This helps identify to developers integrating with your API that there is a breaking change between the two APIs.

In this example, we would create a /v1/ and a /v2 group with the Group method, which is declared in the following...