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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

The GoMusic project

In this chapter, we'll leverage the power of React to build a products page for the GoMusic store. The GoMusic store is the main full stack project that we'll be building throughout this book, and it is basically an online store of musical instruments. The frontend will be built with React, whereas the backend will be built with Go.

Here is the product page we're building today:

We'll follow a step-by-step approach to building this page. This web page will not be ordinary. We'll make use of the powerful React development tools to update this page in real time whenever we make a change. To further demonstrate the capabilities of React and its tools, the web page will rely on a JSON file, which will contain information about the images, the names, the prices, and the descriptions of the musical instruments we are trying to sell. Whenever...