Go: Building Web Applications

Chapter 2. Serving and Routing

The cornerstone of the Web as a commercial entity—the piece on which marketing and branding has relied on nearly exclusively—is the URL. While we're not yet looking at the top-level domain handling, we need to take up the reins of our URL and its paths (or endpoints).

In this chapter, we'll do just this by introducing multiple routes and corresponding handlers. First, we'll do this with a simple flat file serving and then we'll introduce complex mixers to do the routing with more flexibility by implementing a library that utilizes regular expressions in its routes.

By the end of this chapter, you should be able to create a site on localhost that can be accessed by any number of paths and return content relative to ...