Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go - Second Edition

RESTful API with gorilla/mux and MongoDB

In the previous chapters, we explored all the possible ways of building a RESTful API. We used basic HTTP routers, as well as many other web frameworks. However, to keep it simple, we can use gorilla/mux with mongo-driver for the MongoDB driver. In this section, we will build an end-to-end movie API while integrating the database and HTTP router. In the previous section, we learned how to create a new MongoDB document and retrieve it using mongo-driver. By consolidating our knowledge of HTTP routers and databases, we can create a movie API.

Let's create the plan so that we can create the API:

1. Prepare structs to hold movie information and the database connection.
2. Create a server for hosting the API. ...