Building RESTful Web services with Go

Setting up the project and running the development server

This is a building series book. It assumes you already know the basics of Go. If not, no worries. You can jump start and learn them quickly from Go's official site at https://golang.org/. Go uses a different way of developing projects. Writing a standalone, simple program doesn't bother you much. But after learning the basics, people try to advance a step further. For that reason, as a Go developer, you should know how Go projects are laid out and the best practices to keep your code clean.

Make sure you have done the following things before proceeding:

• Install Go compiler on your machine
• Set GOROOT and GOPATH environment variables

There are many online references from which you ...