Chapter 1. Go and web applications

This chapter covers

  • Defining web applications
  • Using Go to write web applications: the advantages
  • Understanding the basics of web application programming
  • Writing the simplest possible web application in Go

Web applications are ubiquitous. Take any application you use on a daily basis, and likely it’s a web application or has a web application variant (this includes mobile apps). Any language that supports software development that interfaces with human beings will inevitably support web application development. One of the first things developers of a new language do is build libraries and frameworks to interact with the internet and the World Wide Web. There are myriad web development tools for the more ...

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