Go for Web Development

Find out how Go makes web development fast and enjoyable by developing a full stack web project.

Go for Web Development gets you started with web development in the language, opening with the classic "Hello world" through building an application with a strongly designed database backend, useful middleware, UI with an intelligent search function, multi-user authentication, and more.

We'll start off by building a web server with Go's extensive standard library. You'll learn the concepts of a single page web application and create a dynamic user interface using templates, manipulate a database, and use powerful encryption algorithms to implement an authentication system. We'll also start to incorporate more functionalities by calling out to external libraries from our database. When we've put everything together, we'll show you how package it all up and deploy it into the wild using Heroku.

Who this course is for

If you've heard a lot about Go and are interested in understanding how to use it for web development, this video course delivers the knowledge you need to start developing full web applications. We expect you to have a background in general programming principles and the ability to write in any programming language, but no direct experience with Go is necessary.

What you will learn from this course

Get a web server up and running quickly with Go's standard library
Design a UI with multiple template engines for improved flexibility
Call on the services of an external API
Get to grips with and incorporate web middleware
Use AJAX requests to build a single page web application
Integrate Gorilla/MUX for cleaner route handling
Create users securely by using bcrypt to hash user passwords
Access SQLite and Postgres databases and deploy your application on Heroku