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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

Summary

This chapter introduced Tailwind CSS and discussed its utility-first approach. We’ve previously seen samples of it in Chapter 4, Serving and Embedding HTML Content, where we were provided with the HTML/CSS, but this is our first look at using it and how we can rapidly create components outside of heavier frameworks, as well as how we can rapidly integrate it with our frontend Vue application with configuration and how we can test its successful installation.

In this chapter, we created a full-stack application, bringing our expertise together thus far. We’ve successfully built a frontend application in Vue that communicates with our backend in Golang; as part of this, we also looked at how to configure and use Axios and how to mitigate common CORS issues, before concluding with a brief look at using middleware in our Vue app to allow us to communicate across different JSON schemas in the backend.

In the next chapter, we’ll look into securing our sessions...