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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

An introduction to feature flags

In the current rapidly changing world, developers need to make changes and roll out new features almost every single day, if not quicker. Sometimes, this requires features to be built even before there are any user needs. Having the ability to deploy features into production without disruption is the holy grail of software development.

Features that are deployed to production may or may not be made available to users; this all depends on tactical decisions on the business side. Developers will keep on releasing features to production and, when the time is right, the feature will be made available with a click of a button from the business side. This kind of facility is provided by the feature flag.

In simple terms, feature flags are like on/off switches that we can use to enable/disable features in our applications without creating disruption. Enabling features will also allow companies to strategically enable or disable features depending on...