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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

Publishing Docker images

After developing your application, the next step is to deploy the application so that your user can start using it. To do this, you need to package your application. This is where Docker comes into the picture. Docker is a tool that is used to package your application into a single file, making it easy to deploy into a cloud environment such as Amazon, Google, and so on. We will look at Docker images and containers in depth in Chapter 13, Dockerizing an Application. We will look at the file with which we configure Docker, called the Dockerfile. We will briefly look at what this file does.

Dockerfile

Dockerfile is the default filename used to name a file that contains instructions for building an image for your application. The Dockerfile contains instructions on steps for Docker to perform to package your application into a Docker image.

Let’s take a look at the Dockerfile that we have inside the Chapter12 directory:

# 1. Compile the app...