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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

Application and components

When writing software using Vue, the application will start up by creating an application instance. This instance is the main object in our Vue-based application. Once we have an instance, then we can start using components. Components are reusable UI pieces that contain three parts – a template (which is like HTML), styles, and JavaScript. Normally, when designing a frontend, we think about HTML elements – div, href, and so on – but now we need to think about components that contain all the different parts. Figure 7.2 shows an example of the login page that we rewrite using Vue.

Figure 7.2: Vue-based login

Figure 7.2: Vue-based login

The concept of an application inside Vue can be thought of as a self-isolated container containing different components that can share data. Any web page can contain a number of applications displaying different kinds of data, and even if they are isolated, they can also share data if and when required...