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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

Rendering static content

In this section, we will learn how to serve the web pages we have created as static content. We will use the standard Go net/http package to serve up the web pages. All the code and HTML files can be found inside the static/web directory (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Full-Stack-Web-Development-with-Go/tree/main/Chapter04/static/web).

Execute the server using the following command:

go run main.go

You will see the following message on the screen:

2022/01/11 22:22:03 Starting up server on port 3333 ...

Open your browser and enter http://localhost:3333 as the URL. You will see the login page, as shown in Figure 4.2:

Figure 4.2 – The login page

Figure 4.2 – The login page

To access the dashboard page, you can use the URL http://localhost:3333/dashboard.html. You will see like the following screenshot:

 Figure 4.3 – The dashboard page

Figure 4.3 – The dashboard page

Let’s take a quick look at the code that serves up the static...