CHAPTER 4

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Getting Started with Web Development

The previous three chapters discussed the fundamentals of the Go programming language and the Go ecosystem. Because the primary focus of this book is to explore web development in Go, the rest of the chapters will explore web development in Go with a practical perspective.

Go is a great technology stack for building scalable, web-based, back-end systems for mobile and web applications, although it might not be the best choice for building traditional web applications in which all kind of processing and rendering of view templates execute on the server side. This doesn’t mean that Go is not good for ...

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