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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)

Serving static files

When we talk about static files, we are talking about web application assets that are needed in order to render a working user experience. Static file assets include, but are not limited to, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) files, JavaScript (JS) files, and any other file that a user would need to download in order to render the web application within the browser. Within Echo, we are able to present an interface for the browser to download these assets much in the same way we present new routes within Echo. The following is an example from our project where we are going to present a route called /static/ wherein every request that is made to any resource prefixed with /static/ will be served from a particular directory which is based on the location of the binary executable, in our example the ./static/ directory:

e.Static("/static", "static&quot...