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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

Summary

This chapter covered a key skill that any software developer should have, which is proper software testing in production. We focused on the features that are offered by the Go language to enable the testing of Go code.

We started by covering how to build mock types and why they are important when it comes to software testing. We then covered how to perform unit testing in Go and how to benchmark your software.

In the next chapter, we'll explore the concept of Isomorphic Go programming, by covering the GopherJS framework.