Summary
This chapter serves as an introduction to the most basic concepts of Go and producing for the Web in Go, but these points are critical foundational elements for being productive in the language and in the community.
We've looked at coding conventions and package design and organization, and we've produced our first program—the all-too-familiar Hello, World application—and accessed it via our localhost.
Obviously, we're a long way from a real, mature application for the Web, but the building blocks are essential to getting there.
In Chapter 2, Serving and Routing, we'll look at how to direct different requests to different application logic using the built-in routing functionality in Go's net/http package, as well as a couple of third party ...
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