Gorilla web toolkit
Now that we have covered how web Restful APIs work, it's time to understand how to best implement them in Go. The Go language comes with a very powerful web package in the standard library; Go also enjoys the support of numerous third-party packages. In this book, we will use a very popular Go web third-party toolkit called Gorilla web toolkit. The Gorilla web toolkit consists of a collection of Go packages that together helps build powerful web applications quickly and efficiently.
The key package in the Gorilla web toolkit ecosystem is called gorilla/mux. The mux package is described in the package documentation as a request router and dispatcher. This is basically a software component that accepts an incoming HTTP request, ...
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