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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

Building Continuous Integration

Building web applications to solve a problem is great, but we also need to make the applications available to users so they can start using them. As developers, we write code. But, at the same time, this code will need to be built or compiled so that it can be deployed, allowing users to use it. We need to understand how we can build our web application automatically, without requiring any manual process to work through. This is what we are going to talk about in this chapter. We will look at what is known as continuous integration (CI).

CI is a practice or process for automating the integration of code from different contributors into a project. CI allows developers to frequently merge code into a code repository where it will be tested and built automatically.

In this chapter, we will learn about the following for CI:

  • GitHub workflows
  • Using GitHub Actions
  • Publishing to GitHub Packages