Web Development with Go

Chapter 1: Getting Started With Go Chapter Goal: Introduces the reader to the Go programming language, and explains how to set up Go on the user's machine. This chapter will also provide basic sample programs with Go. * Introducing Go * Why Go * Installing Go * Sample programs with Go * SummaryChapter 2: Go FundamentalsChapter Goal: Provide tutorials for understanding the features of Go with the help of practical samples. *1. Packages *2. Go Tools*3. Array*4. Slice*5. Map*6. Defer*7. Panic*8. Recover * Summary Chapter 3: User Defined Types and ConcurrencyChapter Goal: This chapter further explores the features of Go. Unique features such as user-defined types and concurrency will be explained in detail with the help of examples and samples.* Struct * Interface * Concurrency * Goroutines * Channels * SummaryChapter 4: Getting Started with Web DevelopmentChapter Goal: This chapter introduces the reader to web development in Go with the internal package net/http. Also, complex routing scenarios will be covered. The chapter will employ a static web server and basic web app for practical understanding of the process. * Introducing net/http package* Build a simple web server* http.Handler Interface* Build a static web server* Build a basic web app* URL router* Gorilla mux URL router* Summary Chapter 5: Go Templates Chapter Goal: This chapter introduces the readers to Go templates with the internal package html/template. Also, the reader will learn how to build a web app practically using html/template with net/http package. * Introducing the html/template package* Basic syntax* Declare variables* Includes* Context* Building a web app with net/http and html/template* Summary Chapter 6: HTTP Middleware Chapter Goal: This chapter explains the process of writing HTTP middleware by practically adding a middleware layer to the web app built in chapter 5. * Writing HTTP Middleware * Negroni package * Writing HTTP Middleware with Negroni* Summary Chapter 7: Authentication for Web Apps Chapter Goal: This chapter covers different kinds of authentication mechanisms in Go web apps. * Introduction* HTTP Basic authentication * Cookie-based sessions* Authentication with Gorilla Web Toolkit * Authentication with OAuth * Adding authentication to an existing web app* Summary Chapter 8: Persistence with MongoDB Chapter Goal: This chapter introduces data persistence with MongoDB using mgo, a MongoDB driver for Go. * Introducing MongoDB * mgo package * Working with MongoDB using mgo * Persistence with MongoDB* Summary and best practices Chapter 9: Building RESTful Services Chapter Goal: This chapter explains how to build a real-world RESTful service with net/http, MongoDB with mgo, and many useful Go packages. Best practices for building W web apps in Go will also be covered. * Discussion about the app * Designing the API endpoints * Creating Models* Building the REST API* Implementing the persistence with MongoDB* Adding authentication* Adding HTTP Middleware * Best Practices* Summary Chapter 10: Building Web Apps with Beego Chapter Goal: Some Go developers may look for a full-fledged web development framework for building web apps. Beego is a full-fledged web development framework for Go. This chapter will introduce Beego for developing web apps, and will provide a web app by leveraging the features of the framework. * Introducing Beego* Routing * Controllers* Templates* ORM* Building an app with Beego* Summary and best practices Chapter 11: Deploying Go Web Apps to the Google Cloud Chapter Goal: This chapter explains how to build Go web apps by leveraging the features of the Google Cloud platform and deploying these web apps to it. * Google Cloud and Google App Engine* Go runtime environment for Google App Engine* The appengine package* App engine modules in Go* Go datastore API* Deploying Go web apps to Google App Engine* Summary Chapter 12: Deploying Go Web Servers with Docker Chapter Goal: This chapter will explain how to deploy Go web apps to the Google Cloud platform using Docker. * Introducing Docker* Docker on Google Cloud Platform* Google Container Engine* Deploying Go servers to the Google Cloud with Docker* Introduction to container cluster management and Kubernetes