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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

Adding authentication

Building the application requires some consideration in terms of designing the application, and one of the key pieces that needs to be thought of ahead of time is security. There are many facets of security but in this section of our application, we will look at authentication.

Note

Authentication is the process of validating that a user is who they claim to be.

To add authentication to our app, we will need to store the user information in the database first. The user information will be used to authenticate the user before using the application. The database user table can be found inside the db/schema.sql file:

CREATE TABLE gowebapp.users (
User_ID        BIGSERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
User_Name      text NOT NULL,
Password_Hash text NOT NULL,
Name           text NOT NULL,
Config         ...