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Hands-On Full Stack Development with Go

By : Mina Andrawos
Book Image

Hands-On Full Stack Development with Go

By: Mina Andrawos

Overview of this book

The Go programming language has been rapidly adopted by developers for building web applications. With its impressive performance and ease of development, Go enjoys the support of a wide variety of open source frameworks, for building scalable and high-performant web services and apps. Hands-On Full Stack Development with Go is a comprehensive guide that covers all aspects of full stack development with Go. This clearly written, example-rich book begins with a practical exposure to Go development and moves on to build a frontend with the popular React framework. From there, you will build RESTful web APIs utilizing the Gin framework. After that, we will dive deeper into important software backend concepts, such as connecting to the database via an ORM, designing routes for your services, securing your services, and even charging credit cards via the popular Stripe API. We will also cover how to test, and benchmark your applications efficiently in a production environment. In the concluding chapters, we will cover isomorphic developments in pure Go by learning about GopherJS. As you progress through the book, you'll gradually build a musical instrument online store application from scratch. By the end of the book, you will be confident in taking on full stack web applications in Go.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: The Go Language
5
Section 2: The Frontend
8
Section 3: Web APIs and Middleware in Go

Revisiting the frontend code

The last deep dive we did in terms of the frontend code was in Chapter 5, Building a Frontend for GoMusic. Chapter 4, Frontend with React.js, and Chapter 5, Building a Frontend for GoMusic, served to build solid and practical foundational knowledge about how to construct a working React app, which can be used as the frontend to our backend Go application.

These two chapters covered about 85% of GoMusic's frontend. However, they did not cover all of the JavaScript code that's needed to glue together the different React components that we built in Chapter 4, Frontend with React.js, and Chapter 5, Building a Frontend for GoMusic. In this section, we will provide an overview of the overall frontend architectures and fill some of the gaps.

In the next section, we will take a look at the application structure of the frontend of our application...