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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

Creating Vue middleware

Working with Vue (and Axios) and Golang, we’ve shown we can bring all of learning so far all together, but we’ve missed one small aspect. We’ve deliberately omitted the JSON struct tags from our Golang code. If we add them back into our backend/server.go and rerun both the server and app, our requests no longer work!

func appPOST() http.HandlerFunc {
    type RequestBody struct {
        InboundMsg string `json:"inbound_msg,omitempty"`
    }
    type ResponseBody struct {
        OutboundMsg string `json:"outbound_msg,omitempty"`
    }
...

Our frontend and backend can no longer communicate as the contract has changed; the frontend is communicating in CamelCase, while the backend is communicating in snake_case.

This isn’t a show-stopper, as we’...