Preface

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-performance web services and applications. This book is a comprehensive guide that covers all aspects of full stack development with Go. As you progress through the book, you'll gradually build an online musical instrument store application from scratch.

This clearly written, example-rich book begins with a practical exposure to Go development, by covering Go's building blocks, as well as Go's powerful concurrency features. We'll then explore the popular React framework, and work on building the frontend of our application with it. From there, you will build RESTful Web APIs utilizing the Gin framework, which is a very powerful and popular Go framework for Web APIs. After that, we will dive deeper into important software backend concepts, such as connecting to the database using an object-relational mapping (ORM), designing routes for your services, securing your services, and even charging credit cards using 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 development in pure Go by learning about GopherJS.

By the end of the book, you will be confident in taking on full stack web applications in Go.