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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

Moving to API-First

In the previous chapters, we learned about building databases, adding monitoring to applications, using middleware, and session handling. In this chapter, we will learn about building an API in our application, and why an API is an important part of writing applications as it forms the interface between the frontend and the backend. Building the API first is important, as it forms the bridge for data exchanges and can be thought of as a contract between the frontend and the backend. Having the proper and correct form of contract is important before building an application.

We will also explore the concepts of REST and JSON to get a better understanding of what they are and how they are used throughout our application.

Upon completion of this chapter, you will know how to design a REST API using Gorilla Mux and also how to process requests to perform operations by converting data to and from JSON. You will also learn how to take care of error handling.

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