Building RESTful Web services with Go

Summary

In this chapter, we first looked into what middleware is, exactly, including how middleware processes a request and response. We then explored middleware code with a few practical examples. After that, we saw how to chain our middleware by passing one middleware to another. Then, we used a package called Alice for intuitive chaining. We also took a look at the Gorilla handlers middleware for logging. Next, we learned what an RPC is and how an RPC server and client can be built. After that, we explained what a JSON RPC is, and we saw how one can create a JSON RPC using Gorilla toolkit. We introduced many third-party packages for middleware and RPC, with examples.

In the next chapter, we are going to explore few famous web frameworks ...