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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

Exposing our REST API

Let’s understand a few concepts that we are going to use in this section:

  • REST – REST stands for Representational State Transfer. It is a widely accepted set of guidelines for creating web services. REST is independent of the protocol used, but most of the time, it is tied to the HTTP protocol that normal web browsers use. Some of the design principles behind REST include the following:
    • A resource has an identifier – for example, the URI for a particular order might be https://what-ever-shop.com/orders/1.
    • Uses JSON as the exchange format – for example, a GET request to https://what-ever-shop.com/orders/1 might return the following response body:
      {"orderId":1,"orderValue":0.99,"productId":100,"quantity":10}
    • REST APIs built on HTTP are called using standard HTTP verbs to perform operations on resources. The most common operations are GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE.
  • API – API is...