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Go Web Development Cookbook

By : Arpit Aggarwal
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Go Web Development Cookbook

By: Arpit Aggarwal

Overview of this book

Go is an open source programming language that is designed to scale and support concurrency at the language level. This gives you the liberty to write large concurrent web applications with ease. From creating web application to deploying them on Amazon Cloud Services, this book will be your one-stop guide to learn web development in Go. The Go Web Development Cookbook teaches you how to create REST services, write microservices, and deploy Go Docker containers. Whether you are new to programming or a professional developer, this book will help get you up to speed with web development in Go. We will focus on writing modular code in Go; in-depth informative examples build the base, one step at a time. You will learn how to create a server, work with static files, SQL, NoSQL databases, and Beego. You will also learn how to create and secure REST services, and create and deploy Go web application and Go Docker containers on Amazon Cloud Services. By the end of the book, you will be able to apply the skills you've gained in Go to create and explore web applications in any domain.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Updating your first document in MongoDB

Once a BSON document is created we may need to update some of its fields. In that case, we have to execute update/upsert queries on the MongoDB collection, which we will be covering in this recipe.

How to do it...

  1. Install the gopkg.in/mgo.v2, gopkg.in/mgo.v2/bson, and github.com/gorilla/mux packages, using the go get command, as follows:
$ go get gopkg.in/mgo.v2
$ go get gopkg.in/mgo.v2/bson
$ go get github.com/gorilla/mux
  1. Create update-record-mongodb.go. Then we connect to the MongoDB database, update the name of an employee for an ID, and write the number of records updated in MongoDB to an HTTP response stream, as follows:
package main
import
(
"fmt"
"log"
...