Go: Building Web Applications

Chapter 3. Connecting to Data

In the previous chapter, we explored how to take URLs and translate them to different pages in our web application. In doing so, we built URLs that were dynamic and resulted in dynamic responses from our (very simple) net/http handlers.

By implementing an extended mux router from the Gorilla toolkit, we expanded the capabilities of the built-in router by allowing regular expressions, which gives our application a lot more flexibility.

This is something that's endemic to some of the most popular web servers. For example, both Apache and Nginx provide methods to utilize regular expressions in routes and staying at par with common solutions should be our minimal baseline for functionality.

But this is just an admittedly ...