Mina Andrawos - Hands-On Full Stack Development with Go : Build Full Stack Web Applications with Go, React, Gin, and GopherJS

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Mina Andrawos is an experienced engineer who has acquired deep experience in Go from using it personally and professionally. He regularly authors articles and tutorials about the language, and also shares Go's open source projects. He has written numerous Go applications with varying degrees of complexity. Other than Go, he has skills in Java, C#, Python, and C++. Besides software development, he has working experience of scrum mastering, sales engineering, and software product management.

Pankaj Khairnar is a founder and CEO of Scalent Infotech Pvt. Ltd. (a Golang-specialized development company.) In his career of over 12 years, he has developed many highly scalable platforms for various domains such as digital advertising, the Internet of Things (IoT), and e-commerce. Pankaj always likes to explore and implement new cutting-edge technologies.

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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.

This book will appeal to developers who are planning to start building functional full stack web applications in Go. Basic knowledge of the Go language and JavaScript is expected. Some knowledge of HTML and CSS is also expected. The book targets web developers who are looking to move to the Go language.

, Welcome to Full Stack Go , provides an introduction to the topics covered in the book, as well as an overview of the architecture of the application that will be built throughout the book. This chapter also provides us with a glimpse of what to expect from the book.

, Building Blocks of the Go Language , introduces us to the building blocks of the Go language, and how to utilize them to build simple applications. It starts by covering Go's syntax for variables, conditional statements, loops, and functions. From there, it covers how to construct data structures in Go, and how to attach methods to them. It then concludes by focusing on learning how to write interfaces that can describe the behaviors of our program.