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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

Defaults and error pages

With our application now securely communicating to the backend and routing correctly based on authorization, we are almost finished with our core functional requirements.

There’s one final scenario that may arise for our users – the dreaded 404 – the page not found error! Thankfully, Vue Router makes it easy to create a wildcarded “catch-all” route that will be set to redirect users to a specific page if they navigate to somewhere that doesn’t exist.

As you know, in Vue, all routes are defined by creating rules on the specific URL path. So, for example, creating a route for a path of /user would be caught if the user entered packt.com/user, but it wouldn’t if the user entered packt.com/my-user or any other word that is not precisely the one set in the path rule.

To define our catch-all rule in version 4 of the Vue routervue-router 4, we will use the following route entry:

{ path: '/:pathMatch...