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Full-Stack Web Development with Go

By : Nanik Tolaram, Nick Glynn
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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

In this chapter, we explored CI, developed an understanding of why it is important, and the benefits we get by setting up an automated CI process for a project. We learned to set up a GitHub repository to prepare our CI process and also learned to write a GitHub Actions workflow that enables us to automate a number of steps for our application.

Using GitHub Actions, we were able to build our application into an executable binary. This is performed every time we push code into the repository. We learned about building Docker images for our application and the benefits we get by packaging our application as a Docker image.

We learned about GitHub Packages and how to configure it to allow us to push our Docker images to a central location. Having our application packaged as a Docker image makes it easy for us to test our application anywhere. We don’t have to worry about building the source code as everything is packaged together into a single Docker image file.

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