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Hands-On Full Stack Development with Go

By : Mina Andrawos

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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.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Section 1: The Go Language

Section 1: The Go Language

Welcome to Full Stack Go

Welcome to Full Stack Go

What is full stack development?

What will we build?

The outline of this book

Building Blocks of the Go Language

Building Blocks of the Go Language

Technical requirements

Packages, variables, data types, and pointers

Functions and closures

Go data structures

Conditional statements and loops

Panics, recovers, and defers

Further reading

Go Concurrency

What is concurrency?

The select statement

The sync package

Further reading

Section 2: The Frontend

Section 2: The Frontend

Frontend with React.js

Frontend with React.js

Prerequisites and technical requirements

The GoMusic project

The React framework

Further reading

Building a Frontend for GoMusic

Building a Frontend for GoMusic

Prerequisites and technical requirements

Building GoMusic

Further reading

Section 3: Web APIs and Middleware in Go

Section 3: Web APIs and Middleware in Go

RESTful Web APIs in Go with the Gin Framework

RESTful Web APIs in Go with the Gin Framework

Technical requirements

The Gin framework

Implementing RESTful APIs using the Gin framework

Further reading

Advanced Web Go Applications with Gin and React

Advanced Web Go Applications with Gin and React

Technical requirements

The database layer

Credit card handling

Revisiting the frontend code

Further reading

Testing and Benchmarking Your Web API

Testing and Benchmarking Your Web API

Further reading

Introduction to Isomorphic Go with GopherJS

Introduction to Isomorphic Go with GopherJS

Technical requirements

GopherJS fundamentals

GopherJS with React

Further reading

Where to Go from Here?

Where to Go from Here?

Cloud-native applications

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The outline of this book

This book will cover numerous practical topics to help you acquire the deep skills necessary for a full stack developer:

In Chapter 2, Go's Building Blocks, and Chapter 3, Go Concurrency, we will take a deep and a practical tour into the Go language. You will learn about some of the key features of the language, as well as some of its popular design patterns.
In Chapter 4, Frontend with React.js, and Chapter 5, Building a Frontend for GoMusic, we will cover how to build beautiful and responsive frontend applications using the React.js framework. This is also where we'll start building our GoMusic web application. We will cover React's building blocks, design patterns, best practices, and more. The majority of the frontend code of the book project will be covered in Chapter 4, Frontend with React.js, and Chapter 5, Building a Frontend for...