Network Programming with Go Language: Essential Skills for Programming, Using and Securing Networks with Open Source Google Golang

© Jan Newmarch and Ronald Petty 2022

J. Newmarch, R. PettyNetwork Programming with Go Languagehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8095-9_16

16. Gorilla

Jan Newmarch¹   and Ronald Petty²

(1)

Oakleigh, VIC, Australia

(2)

San Francisco, CA, USA

 

The Go standard library and related “x” packages offer a lot of functionality that we can leverage to build a website. Go trends toward simpler coding styles if possible; simple doesn’t always mean easy though. Until you have enough experience in the domain (web development) and the implementation stack (Go/Web), it might be easier and/or better to use a toolkit that provides additional ease-of-use features. Gorilla is one such toolkit. We have already touched upon Gorilla with WebSockets; now we take a more focused ...