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Full-Stack Web Development with Go

By : Nanik Tolaram, Nick Glynn
Book Image

Full-Stack Web Development with Go

By: Nanik Tolaram, Nick Glynn

Overview of this book

Go is a modern programming language with capabilities to enable high-performance app development. With its growing web framework ecosystem, Go is a preferred choice for building complete web apps. This practical guide will enable you to take your Go skills to the next level building full stack apps. This book walks you through creating and developing a complete modern web service from auth, middleware, server-side rendering, databases, and modern frontend frameworks and Go-powered APIs. You’ll start by structuring the app and important aspects such as networking, before integrating all the different parts together to build a complete web product. Next, you’ll learn how to build and ship a complete product by starting with the fundamental building blocks of creating a Go backend. You’ll apply best practices for cookies, APIs, and security, and level up your skills with the fastest growing frontend framework, Vue. Once your full stack application is ready, you’ll understand how to push the app to production and be prepared to serve customers and share it with the world. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to build and ship secure, scalable, and complete products and how to combine Golang with existing products using best practices.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Building a Golang Backend
5
Part 2:Serving Web Content
9
Part 3:Single-Page Apps with Vue and Go
14
Part 4:Release and Deployment

Frontend Frameworks

In this chapter, we will take a high-level look at the current JavaScript frameworks available to modern web developers. We will compare some of the popular ones, Svelte, React, and Vue, before creating a simple app in Vue and ending by adding navigation using the popular Vue Router. This will lay the foundations needed to later talk to our API server from Chapter 6, Moving to API-First.

Upon completion of this chapter, we will have covered the following:

  • Understanding the difference between server-side rendering and single-page applications
  • Looking at different frontend frameworks
  • Creating applications using the Vue framework
  • Understanding routing inside the Vue framework

This chapter paves the way to the land of the frontend. We will learn about the different parts of frontend development in this and the next chapters.