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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

Exploring Go standard logging

In this section, we will look at the default logging library provided by the Go language. Go provides a rich set of libraries; however, like every other library, there are limitations – it does not provide leveled logging (INFO, DEBUG, etc.), file log file features, and many more. These limitations can be overcome by using open source logging libraries.

Go provides very diverse and rich standard libraries for applications. Logging is one of them, and it is available inside the log package. The following documentation link provides complete information on the different functions available inside the https://pkg.go.dev/log@latest package.

Another package that is available in Go standard library is the fmt package, which provides functions for I/O operations such as printing, input, and so on. More information can be found at https://pkg.go.dev/fmt@latest. The available functions inside the log package are similar to the fmt package, and when...