Go: Building Web Applications

Introducing the net package

At the heart of all network communications in Go is the aptly-named net package, which contains subpackages not only for the very relevant HTTP operations, but also for other TCP/UDP servers, DNS, and IP tools.

In short, everything you need to create a robust server environment.

Of course, what we care about for the purpose of this book lies primarily in the net/http package, but we'll look at a few other functions that utilize the rest of the package, such as a TCP connection, as well as WebSockets.

Let's quickly take a look at just performing that Hello World (or Web, in this case) example we have been talking about.