Aggarwal - Go web development cookbook: build full-stack web applications with Go

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Arpit Aggarwal is a programmer with over 7 years of industry experience in software analysis, design, effort estimation, development, troubleshooting, testing, and supporting web applications. He is among the top contributors of StackOverflow with more than 9,000 reputation and more than 100 badges in multiple areas such as Java, Scala, Go, Spring, Spring-MVC, GiT, Angular, Unit Testing, Web Services, and Docker, and has written many technical articles for Java Code Geeks, System Code Geeks, Web Code Geeks, and DZone.

Anshul Joshi is a data science professional with experience primarily in data munging, recommendation systems, predictive modeling, and distributed computing. He has worked on Spark and Hadoop ecosystems. He is a deep learning and AI enthusiast and holds degrees in computer science and data analytics. Most of the time, he can be caught exploring GitHub or trying anything new that he can get his hands on.

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Go is an open source programming language that is designed to scale and supports concurrency at the language level, which allows developers to write large concurrent web applications with ease.

From creating a web application to deploying it on AWS, this will be a one-stop guide to learn w eb development in Go. Whether you are new to programming or a professional developer, the book will get you up to speed on web development in Go.

The book will focus on writing modular code in Go and contains in-depth informative recipes building the base one step at a time. You will be taken through concepts and recipes such as creating a server, working with HTML Forms, session and error handling, SQL and NoSQL databases, Beego, creating and securing RESTful web services, creating, unit testing and debugging WebSockets, and creating Go Docker containers and deploying them on AWS.

By the end of the book, you will be able to apply your newly-learned skills in Go to create and explore web applications in any domain.

This book is intended for developers who want to use Go to write large concurrent web applications. Readers with some familiarity with Go will find this book the most beneficial.

, Creating Your First Server in Go , explains how to write and interact with HTTP and TCP servers, optimize server responses with GZIP compression, and implement routing and logging in a Go web application.

, Working with Templates, Static Files, and HTML Forms , covers how to create HTML templates; serve static resources from the filesystem; create, read, and validate HTML Forms; and implement a simple user authentication for a Go web application.

, Working with Sessions, Error Handling, and Caching in Go , explores implementing HTTP sessions, HTTP cookies, error handling, and caching and managing HTTP sessions using Redis, which is required for a web application deployed across multiple data centers.

, Writing and Consuming RESTful Web Services in Go , explains how to write RESTful web services, version them, and create AngularJS with TypeScript 2, ReactJS, and VueJS clients to consume them.

, Working with SQL and NoSQL Databases , goes through implementing CRUD operations with MySQL and MongoDB databases in a Go web application.

, Writing Microservices in Go Using Micro a Microservice Toolkit