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Full-Stack Web Development with Go

By : Nanik Tolaram, Nick Glynn
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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

Using Vue Router to move around

In this section, we will look at Vue Router and learn how to use it. Vue Router helps in structuring the frontend code when designing a single-page application (SPA). An SPA is a web application that is presented to the user as a single HTML page, which makes it more responsive as the content inside the HTML page is updated without refreshing the page. The SPA requires the use of a router that will route to the different endpoints when updating data from the backend.

Using a router allows easier mapping between the URL path and components simulating page navigation. There are two types of routes that can be configured using Vue Router – dynamic and static routes. Dynamic routes are used when the URL path is dynamic based on some kind of data. For example, in /users/:id, id in the path will be populated with a value, which will be something such as /users/johnny or users/acme. Static routes are routes that do not contain any dynamic data, for...