Full-Stack Web Development with Go

The book provides chapters on the different layers of building complete Go-based web applications. Thinking about databases, front-end frameworks, middleware, logging, and security all the way to deployment in the cloud.

Key Features

• Learn how to get up and running with Vue, including Vue Router, authentication, and experimenting with Tailwind CSS
• Speed up your frontend development and bring it all together in a deployable, production-ready manner
• Learn tools and techniques to develop secure and scalable products with a modern stack.

Book Description

Go Full Stack walks you through creating and developing a complete modern web service from auth, interops, server-side rendering, databases, and modern frontend frameworks and Go-powered APIs. Developers with mixed frontend and backend experience will be able to put their knowledge to work with this practical guide.The book will give you the knowledge to glue together your skills and allow you to build a complete stack web application.

Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions. The book will begin by structuring the app and the relevant pieces such as networking, before integrating all the different parts together to build a complete web product. You will learn how to build and ship a complete product by starting with the fundamental building blocks of creating a Go backend from zero, applying best practices about cookies, APIs, and security, and leveling up your skills with the latest frontend framework, Vue!. Once your full stack application is ready, you will then learn how to stand the app up in production and be prepared to serve customers and share it with the world.

By the end of the book, you will know how to build and ship secure, scalable, and complete products and how to combine Golang with existing products along with many best practices.

What you will learn

• Design and build databases using PostgreSQL and SQLc to generate data operation SQL code
• Centralize logging and metrics collection to monitor applications in cloud environments
• Add security layers such as cookies and session handling into applications using middleware
• Evaluate different frontend libraries and HTML/CSS frameworks, including Vuetify, Buefy, and Tailwind
• Get your frontend and backend communicate securely using secure-auth and the Axios project
• Learn to package applications as Docker containers for cloud deployment
• Setting up CI/CD in Github

Who This Book Is For

This book is for web developers with little experience in Go through to those wanting to learn how to combine Go with modern web development to ship and create complete tech products. Basic Go language understanding and familiarity with web basics (able to move easily from JS/Java/.NET to Go) and basic HTML/CSS are expected.

Table of Contents

1. Building the Database and Model
2. Application Logging
3. Application Metrics and Tracing
4. Serving and embedding HTML content
5. Securing Backend and Middleware
6. Moving to API first
7. Frontend Frameworks
8. Frontend Component Libraries
9. Middleware & CORS
10. Session Management
11. Feature flags
12. Building Continuous Integration
13. Dockerizing application
14. Cloud Deployment