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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

RESTful APIs

Any backend software system needs a set of APIs to communicate with the frontend. Full stack software is simply composed of a frontend component from one side that exchanges messages with a backend component from the other side. One of the most popular types of APIs used in full stack software are RESTful APIs.

Let's cover an overview of RESTful APIs in the next section.

Overview

RESTful APIs can simply be defined as a set of rules used to build web services where you retrieve or manipulate resources. A resource is typically a kind of document—it could be an HTML document (such as a web page), a JSON document (for pure information sharing), or some other type of document. JSON stands for JavaScript...