Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang

Specifying the endpoints for the frontend application

The following table lists the HTTP request types and endpoints that our frontend service needs to handle in order to implement all the features we described previously:

Request Type	Path	Description
GET	/	Displays the index page
GET	/search?q=TERM	Displays the first page of results for TERM
GET	/search?q=TERM&offset=X	Displays the results for TERM, starting from a particular offset
GET	/submit/site	Displays the site submission form
POST	/submit/site	Handles a site submission
ANY	Any other path	Displays a 404 page

To make our life easier, we will be using gorilla/mux as our preferred router. Creating the router and registering the endpoint handlers is as simple as using ...