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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

Importance of CI

You can think of CI as one aspect of your development process. The main reason why this is important is to allow you, as developers, to ensure that all code that is committed into a central code repository is tested and validated.

This becomes crucial when you are working in a team environment where multiple developers are working on the same project. Having proper CI will give developers peace of mind and assurance that all code they are using can be compiled properly and that automated test cases have been run successfully. Imagine that you have to check out some projects from GitHub, but when you try to compile and run some test cases, it fails; it would be a disaster as you would have to spend time fixing things, but if the project had a proper CI process set up, it would ensure all the committed code would compile correctly and test cases would pass.

Even when working as a solo developer on a project, it is highly recommended to have CI in place. The minimum...