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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

Structuring an application

Go applications are structured inside directories, with each directory containing Go source code that means something for those applications. There are many ways to structure your Go application in different kinds of directories; however, one thing that you have to remember is to always give a directory a name that will be easy for others to understand. As an application grows with time, the chosen directory structure and where code is placed has a big impact on how easily other developers in your team will be able to work with the code base.

Defining packages

Up to this point, we’ve kept things fairly simple, but we’re going to up our game a little and move to a fairly common layout. We won’t use the term “standard layout,” as there’s no such thing in Go, but we’ll look at how we’re structuring our new project and talk about how we reason them through to best structure our Go application for clarity...