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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

GopherJS fundamentals

GopherJS is a set of tools, data types, and Go packages that allows you to compile Go code to JavaScript. Compiling the code of one programming language to another is also known as transpiling. GopherJS is very useful for Go developers who are not very proficient in JavaScript, because it allows you to write code in Go that can be integrated with JavaScript modules. This means that you can write code in Go that empowers the frontend of your application, or can be integrated with Node.js modules, offering you the flexibility of JavaScript combined with the power of Go.

GopherJS is a very a powerful piece of software that is used in numerous applications. However, in order to effectively utilize GopherJS, you need to understand its building blocks. The first step is to retrieve the package using the go get command:

go get -u github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs

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