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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

Understanding and using Terraform

In this section, we will look at another tool that makes it easier for us to work with AWS services: Terraform. In the previous section, we learned that AWS provides tools of its own, which is great for small tasks, but once you start combining the different services it becomes harder to use them.

What is Terraform?

Terraform (https://www.terraform.io/) is an open source tool that provides infrastructure as code (IaC). What this means is you write code to define what kind of service you want to use and how you want to use it, and this way, you can combine and link the different services together as a single piece. This makes it easy for you as a developer to run and destroy infrastructure as a unit instead of separate fragments.

The other benefit that Terraform provides is the ability to version control the infrastructure code like normal application code, where it goes through the normal review process, including the peer review process and...