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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

Understanding OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry is an open source project that enables developers to provide observability capability to their applications. The project provides a Software Development Kit (SDK) for different programming languages, with Go as one of the supported languages, which is integrated with the application. The SDK is for metric collection and reporting, as it provides integration with different open source frameworks, making the integration process seamless. OpenTelemetry also provides a common standard, providing the application flexibility to report the collected data to different observability backend systems. OpenTelemetry’s website is at https://opentelemetry.io/.

Figure 3.1 – OpenTelemetry logo

OpenTelemetry is actually the merging of the OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects. The project is used to instrument, collect, and export metrics, logs, and traces. OpenTelemetry can be used across several languages, and Go...