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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)

Response rendering

As mentioned in Chapter 1, Understanding HTTP, Go, and Echo, the primary purpose of a web application is to take in a request, and render a response to the caller. Fortunately for us, Echo has a multitude of ways we can render responses back to callers. The Echo Context has the following helpers that can be used to render responses, so that you as a developer will not need to serialize the response data yourself:

HTML(code int, html string) error
HTMLBlob(code int, b []byte) error
String(code int, s string) error
JSON(code int, i interface{}) error
JSONPretty(code int, i interface{}, indent string) error
JSONBlob(code int, b []byte) error
JSONP(code int, callback string, i interface{}) error
JSONPBlob(code int, callback string, b []byte) error
XML(code int, i interface{}) error
XMLPretty(code int, i interface{}, indent string) error
XMLBlob(code int, b []byte...