Learning Go Web Development

Build frontendtobackend web applications using the best practices of a powerful, fast, and easytodeploy server language

• Build a fullyfeatured REST API to enable clientside single page apps
• Utilize TLS to build reliable and secure sites
• A quick guide that provides everything a developer needs to know to build endtoend web applications in Go

This book is intended for experienced programmers with minimaltomoderate exposure to the Go language. If you have some fundamentals down, but are looking for more detail when it comes to using Go for the web, this is the book for you.

• Create a listening web server
• Route requests
• Implement SSL/TLS
• Use Go's logicless templates
• Implement caching for maximum performance
• Use sessions and cookies
• Utilize security best practices to keep users and data safe
• Connect to data sources
• Create a RESTful API

Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. It is a statically typed language with syntax loosely derived from that of C, adding garbage collection, type safety, some dynamictyping capabilities, additional builtin types such as variablelength arrays and keyvalue maps, and a large standard library.

Learning Go Web Development is a starttofinish walkthrough of the topics most critical to anyone building a new web application. Whether it's keeping your application secure, connecting to your database, enabling tokenbased authentication, or utilizing logicless templates, this book has you covered. You'll begin by learning about routing requests and implementing SSL. Moving on, you'll get to know about practices to keep users' data safe. By the end of the book, you will be able to build robust, secure, and fullyfeatured applications for the web.

This concise book demonstrates by doing. You'll build a component every step of the way and in the end, will have a blogging platform that can be used for personal experimentation and augmented to be used in production.