Assessments

This section contains answers to the questions from all chapters.

Chapter 1 – Getting started with Gin

  1. Golang is currently one of the fastest growing programming languages in the software development industry. It is a lightweight, open-source language suited for today's microservices architectures.
  2. Multiple web frameworks exist, the most popular are Gin, Martini, and Gorilla.
  3. A Go module is a way to group together a set of packages and give it a version number to mark its existence at a specific point in time.
  4. The default port of an HTTP server backed by Gin framework is 8080.
  5. You can use the c.JSON() or c.XML() methods to return literal JSON or XML structs.

Chapter 2 – Setting up API Endpoints

  1. GitFlow is a branching strategy ...

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