Go Web Programming

Part 1. Go and web applications

Web applications are probably the most widely used type of software application today and if you’re connected to the internet, you would hardly pass a day without using one. Even if you’re mostly on a mobile device, you still are using web applications. Many mobile applications that look like native applications are hybrids that have portions that built on web technologies.

Knowing HTTP is the foundation to learning how to write web applications, so these first two chapters will introduce HTTP. I will also explain why using Go for writing web applications is a good idea. I will jump straight into showing you how to write a simple internet forum using Go and show you a bird’s-eye view of writing a web application. ...