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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

Docker Compose

Docker provides another tool called Docker Compose, allowing developers to run multiple containers simultaneously. Think about use cases where you are building a server that requires temporary memory storage to store cart information; this requires using an external application such as Redis, which provides an in-memory database.

In this kind of scenario, our application depends on Redis to function properly, which means that we need to run Redis at the same time we run our application. There are many other different kinds of use cases where there will be a need to use Docker Compose. The Docker Compose documentation provides a complete step-by-step guide on how to install it on your local machine: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/.

Docker Compose is actually a file that outlines the different containers we want to use. Let’s try to run the sample Docker Compose file that is inside the chapter13/embed folder. Open the terminal and make sure you are...