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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

Writing log messages to the logging server

In the modern cloud environment, there are multiple instances of the same application running on different servers. Due to the distributed nature of the cloud environment, it will be hard to keep track of the different logs produced by the different application instances. This will require using a centralized logging system that will be able to capture all the different log messages from the different applications and systems.

For our needs, we will build our own logging server to capture all log messages in one single place; the code can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Full-Stack-Web-Development-with-Go/tree/main/logserver. The logging server will be a central place that will collate log information from our application, which will help in troubleshooting when our applications are deployed in a cloud environment. The downside of having a central logging server is that when the logging server goes down, we have no visibility...