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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

Introducing React, Vue, and more

If there’s one thing that the JavaScript community enjoys doing, it’s creating new frameworks!

We’re going to explore and contrast a few of the most popular ones and look at the common parts they all share and the main points of difference.

React

React is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries available. It was created, and is still maintained, by Meta (formerly Facebook) and was inspired heavily by a predecessor used internally within Facebook for creating PHP components.

React uses the JavaScript Syntax eXtension (JSX) as a syntax, which looks like a combination of HTML and Java Script. Although you can use React without compilation, most React developers are used to the process common to most modern frameworks, which is to combine and build the source files, the .jsx and .vue files, and build them into a final bundle that can be deployed as a static file. We’ll look at this in a later chapter.

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