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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

Serving and Embedding HTML Content

As we build on our foundations, it is important that we look at another aspect of processing HTTP user requests, routing. Routing is useful as it allows us to structure our application to handle different functionality for certain HTTP methods, such as a GET that can retrieve and a POST on the same route that can replace the data. This concept is the fundamental principle of designing a REST-based application. We’ll end the chapter by looking at how we can use the new embed directive introduced in Go version 1.16 to bundle our web app as a single self-contained executable. This chapter will provide us with the tools to handle user data and create the interface for the user.

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how static and dynamic content is served by the application. You will also have learned how to embed all the different assets (icons, .html, .css, etc.) that will be served by the web application in the application using...