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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

Feature Flags

In this chapter, we will learn about feature flags, what they are, how to use them, and the benefits of using them. Using feature flags is not mandatory for applications. However, as application complexity increases, the need for feature flags will arise.

There are many different features provided by feature flags, but in this chapter, we will focus on how to use feature flags to enable/disable certain features in an application. We will be using an open source, simple version of the feature flag server to demonstrate the integration for both frontend and backend services.

In this chapter, we’ll cover the following topics:

  • Understanding what feature flags are all about
  • Installing an open source feature flag server
  • Enabling/disabling features using feature flags
  • Integrating feature flags for frontend and backend services