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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

Installing Docker

Docker is an open source platform that is used for software development, making it easy to package and ship programs. Docker enables you to package your application and run it in different kinds of infrastructure such as cloud environments.

In this section, we will look at installing Docker on a local machine. Different operating systems have different steps for installing it. Refer to the Docker documentation for an in-depth installation guide relevant to your operating system, which can be found at https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/.

Note

This chapter was written on a Linux machine, so most of the command-line applications that are outlined are only available for Linux.

After taking the steps to install Docker on our development machine, the following are some of the things we do to ensure that everything is working fine.

Use the following commands to check that the Docker engine is running:

systemctl list-units --type=service --state=running...