Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go - Second Edition

Summary

In this chapter, we first introduced the HTTP router. We tried to create HTTP routes using Go's net/http package. Then, we briefly discussed ServeMux with an example. We saw how to add multiple handler functions to multiple routes. Then, we introduced a lightweight router package called httprouter, which allows developers to create elegant routes, with the option of parsing parameters passed in the URL path.

We can also serve files over the HTTP using httprouter. We built a small service to get the Go version and file contents (read-only). That example can be extended to fetch any system information or run a system command.

Next, we introduced the popular Go routing library, gorilla/mux. We discussed how it is different from httprouter ...