How to develop a productive HTTP client in Golang (Go)

 What issues do we have? Can we scale our applications by following this approach? Of course not! 

That's why we're creating an HTTP client library that provides:

• Fast, reliable and friction-free HTTP connections.

• Support for all HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH and more!

• A Concurrency-Safe HTTP client that you can use without worrying about performance.

• Content type management and optimization.

• Mocking features out of the box.

• A clean interface in case you want to unit test your code without relying on integration testing features.

• A robust implementation so you won't need any external dependency whatsoever.

• Completely customizable interface: timeouts, transport layer, custom HTTP client and lots of useful features.

• A library that is PRODUCTION-READY!

If you're looking to integrate a 3rd party REST APIs in your code, you'll need to perform an HTTP call to it. Make sure you take a look at this course before even considering alternatives out there that will force you to use different dependencies for running, testing and extending your code! As Robert Pike says: "A little copying is much better than a little dependency". In this course we're not only getting rid of the dependencies but we're also getting rid of the copying. We're not using anything more than the Go's standard library to design & develop our own HTTP client.

This client will the baseline for all of the applications we're going to build later, making our business scale and grow as fast as we can Go.