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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

Application Logging

Building any kind of application to fulfill a user’s need is one piece of the puzzle; another piece is figuring out how we are going to design it so that we can support it in case there are issues in production. Logging is one of the most important things that need to be thought about thoroughly to allow some visibility when a problem arises. Application logging is the process of saving application events and errors; put simply, it produces a file that contains information about events that occur in your software application. Supporting applications in production requires a quick turnaround, and to achieve this, sufficient information should be logged by the application.

In this chapter, we will look at building a logging server that will be used to log events (e.g., errors) from our application. We will also learn how to multiplex logging to allow us to log different events based on how we configure it. We will cover the following in this chapter:

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