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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

Terraform basic commands

In this section, we will learn some basic Terraform commands that are often used when writing code. We will also examine concepts that are relevant to Terraform.

The init command

Every time we start writing Terraform code, the first command that we run is terraform init. This command prepares all the necessary dependencies required to run the code locally. The command performs the following steps:

  1. Downloads all the necessary modules that are used in the code.
  2. Initializes plugins that are used in the code. For example, if the code is deployed on AWS it will download the AWS plugins.
  3. Creates a file called a lock file that registers the different dependencies and versions that are used by the code.

To gain a better understanding of the previous steps, let’s run the command. Open the terminal and change to the chapter14/simple directory, and execute the following command:

terraform init

You will see an output as follows...