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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

Securing the Backend and Middleware

In previous chapters, we learned how to build our database, run our web application as a server, and serve dynamic content. In this chapter, we will discuss security – in particular, we will look at securing the web app. Security is a vast topic so for this chapter, we will just look at the security aspects that are relevant to our application. Another topic that we will look at is middleware and using it as part of our application.

Middleware is software that is introduced into an application to provide generic functionality that is used for incoming and outgoing traffic in our application. Middleware makes it easy to centralize features that are used across different parts of our applications, and this will be discussed more in upcoming sections of this chapter.

In this chapter, we’ll be covering the following topics:

  • Adding authentication
  • Adding middleware
  • Adding cookies and sessions with Redis

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