Web Development with Google’s Go (golang) Programming Language

Name: Web Development with Google’s Go (golang) Programming Language
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18h 59m 31s

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April 19, 2024

Embrace the Future of Web Development with Google's Go (Golang) programming language, engineered to handle performant web applications at an unrivaled scale. Launched by Google and open-sourced in 2009, Go has rapidly become the top choice for developing web applications, APIs, microservices, and beyond. Outpacing competitors like Ruby on Rails, Python, and PHP, Go is the powerful, performant, and scalable solution for modern web development.

Why Choose This Course?

Gain a solid foundation in web development with this comprehensive course. Here's a glimpse of what you'll master:

Architecture

Networking architecture
Client/server architecture
Request/response pattern
Understanding RFC standards by the IETF
Format of client requests and server responses

Templates

The role of templates in server-side programming
Working with templates from Go’s standard library
Modifying data structures for templates compatibility

Servers

The relationship between TCP and HTTP
Building a TCP server for HTTP requests
Creating an in-memory database using TCP servers
Designing RESTful TCP servers for routes and methods
Understanding web server variations: servemux, multiplexer, mux
Utilizing third-party servers like Julien Schmidt's router
Importance of HTTP methods and status codes

The net/http Package

Streamline development with the net/http package
Explore nuances of the net/http package
Understanding the handler interface
Using http.ListenAndServe
Creating and using a custom servemux
Understanding http.Handle, http.Handler, and related functions
Using http.ServeContent, http.ServeFile, and http.FileServer
Working with http.StripPrefix and http.NotFoundHandler

State & Sessions

Creating secure state with UUIDs, cookies, and URLs
Implementing session management: login, permissions, logout
Managing session expiration

Deployment

Purchasing a domain for your web applications
Deploying applications to Google Cloud

Amazon Web Services

Utilizing AWS for cloud services
Setting up a virtual Linux machine on AWS EC2
Managing virtual machines with SSH
Transferring files using SCP
Understanding and implementing load balancers on AWS

Database Management

MySQL

Integrating MySQL with AWS
Connecting MySQL Workbench to AWS

MongoDB

Understanding CRUD operations
Using MongoDB with Go

MVC Design Pattern

Mastering the MVC design pattern
Applying MVC in your projects

Docker

Comparing virtual machines and containers
Leveraging Docker's benefits
Implementing Docker containers and registries
Deploying Docker with Go

Google Cloud Tools

Using Google Cloud Storage and no-SQL datastore
Implementing Google Cloud Memcache and App Engine

Web Development Toolkit

Handling AJAX and JSON in web applications
JSON in Go with json.Marshal and json.Unmarshal
Securing web applications with HMAC and Base64 encoding
Utilizing web storage and managing context
Implementing TLS & HTTPS

Build and Deploy Applications

Create a photo blog
Develop a Twitter clone

By the end of this course, you will have mastered the fundamentals of web development, equipped with the skills to become an outstanding web developer.

Meet Your Instructor

I'm Todd McLeod, tenured faculty in Computer Information Technology at Fresno City College and adjunct faculty in Computer Science at California State University Fresno. With over 20 years of experience, I am confident this course will transform you into a top-rated web developer.

Who Should Enroll?

This course serves as a university-level introduction to web programming.
Ideal for those with a foundational understanding of the Go programming language.
Perfect for programmers seeking a thorough introduction to web development with Go.
An excellent choice for developers looking to fill knowledge gaps.

Ready to advance your career? Join this course and open doors to a bright future. Learn the best practices in web development and gain the hottest skills in today's marketplace.

About the Author: Greater Commons (Todd McLeod)

Greater Commons (greatercommons.com) is a US-based teaching brand co-founded by Todd McLeod, focused on the modern web stack with a strong emphasis on Go (Golang) for back-end work. Todd has been one of the longest-running independent Go educators on the open web.

The CourseFlix listing carries Web Development with Google's Go (Golang) Programming — a comprehensive walkthrough of building production web applications in Go, covering the standard library net/http patterns, MongoDB integration, and the deployment workflow.

Material is paid and aimed at developers picking up Go for production web development. For broader content, see CourseFlix's Golang and MongoDB category pages.

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#1: Why Go For Web Dev

All Course Lessons (171)

#	Lesson Title	Duration
1	Why Go For Web Dev Demo	07:40
2	Prerequisites	01:36
3	Resources	02:33
4	Language review	18:31
5	How to succeed	08:13
6	Understanding templates	03:28
7	Templating with concatenation	06:26
8	Understanding package text/template: parsing & executing templates	16:53
9	Passing data into templates	03:58
10	Variables in templates	02:29
11	Passing composite data structures into templates	14:58
12	Functions in templates	15:12
13	Pipelines in templates	09:55
14	Predefined global functions in templates	06:11
15	Nesting templates - modularizing your code	07:52
16	Passing data into templates & composition	05:39
17	Using methods in templates	03:38
18	Hands-on exercises	01:59
19	Using package html/template, character escaping, & cross-site scripting	03:37
20	Understanding servers	10:09
21	TCP server - write to connection	06:56
22	TCP server - read from connection using bufio.Scanner	10:34
23	TCP server - read from & write to connection	04:26
24	TCP server - code a client	04:48
25	TCP server - rot13 & in-memory database	09:57
26	TCP server - HTTP request / response foundation hands-on exercise	06:57
27	TCP server - HTTP method & URI retrieval hands-on exercise	05:04
28	TCP server - HTTP multiplexer	05:04
29	net/http package - an overview	09:22
30	Understanding & using ListenAndServe	05:23
31	Foundation of net/http: Handler, ListenAndServe, Request, ResponseWriter	08:27
32	Retrieving form values - exploring *http.Request	15:08
33	Retrieving other request values - exploring *http.Request	08:11
34	Exploring http.ResponseWriter - writing headers to the response	07:36
35	Review	07:14
36	Understanding ServeMux	16:27
37	Disambiguation: func(ResponseWriter, *Request) vs. HandlerFunc	08:03
38	Third-party servemux - Julien Schmidt’s router	08:47
39	Hands-on exercises	01:15
40	Hands-on exercises - solutions #1	04:21
41	Hands-on exercises - solutions #2	04:21
42	Serving a file with io.Copy	19:57
43	Serving a file with http.ServeContent & http.ServeFile	05:03
44	Serving a file with http.FileServer	03:54
45	Serving a file with http.FileServer & http.StripPrefix	03:50
46	Creating a static file server with http.FileServer	06:01
47	log.Fatal & http.Error	03:11
48	Hands-on exercises	04:01
49	Hands-on exercises - solutions	01:00
50	The http.NotFoundHandler	05:52
51	Buying a domain - Google domains	05:48
52	Deploying to Google Cloud	02:17
53	State overview	07:53
54	Passing values through the URL	01:20
55	Passing values from forms	06:23
56	Uploading a file, reading the file, creating a file on the server	05:30
57	Enctype	11:55
58	Redirects - overview	01:01
59	Redirects - diagrams & documentation	06:33
60	Redirects - in practice	07:56
61	Cookies - overview	07:44
62	Cookies - writing and reading	03:32
63	Writing multiple cookies & hands-on exercise	05:21
64	Hands-on exercise solution: creating a counter with cookies	02:12
65	Deleting a cookie	03:20
66	Sessions	06:38
67	Universally unique identifier - UUID	07:27
68	Your first session	08:32
69	Sign-up	12:00
70	Encrypt password with bcrypt	06:01
71	Login	05:21
72	Logout	07:08
73	Permissions	04:05
74	Expire session	03:21
75	Overview	08:26
76	Creating a virtual server instance on AWS EC2	07:21
77	Hello world on AWS	10:51
78	Persisting an application	12:02
79	Hands-on Exercise	04:43
80	Hands-on Solution	02:14
81	Terminating AWS services	16:00
82	Overview	01:32
83	Installing MySQL - Locally	06:25
84	Installing MySQL - AWS	02:45
85	Connect Workbench to MySQL on AWS	06:29
86	Go & SQL - Setup	04:40
87	Go & SQL - In Practice	04:38
88	Overview of load balancers	07:44
89	Create EC2 security groups	03:39
90	Create an ELB load balancer	06:32
91	Implementing the load balancer	08:00
92	Connecting to your MySQL server using MySQL workbench	13:49
93	Hands-on exercise	05:12
94	Hands-on solution	01:06
95	Autoscaling & CloudFront	18:52
96	Starting files	12:43
97	User data	04:33
98	Storing Multiple Values	05:45
99	Uploading pictures	03:37
100	Displaying pictures	08:52
101	Hash message authentication code (HMAC)	01:26
102	Base64 encoding	04:29
103	Web storage	03:07
104	Context	05:31
105	TLS & HTTPS	13:19
106	JSON - JavaScript Object Notation	09:46
107	Go & JSON - Marshal & Encode	04:31
108	Unmarshal JSON with Go	09:48
109	Unmarshal JSON with Go using Tags	10:28
110	Hands-on exercise solution	10:01
111	AJAX introduction	02:09
112	AJAX server side	11:50
113	Organizing code into packages	12:13
114	Create user & delete user	10:13
115	MVC design pattern - model view controller	04:29
116	Install mongodb	06:37
117	Connect to mongodb	04:58
118	CRUD with Go & mongodb	05:29
119	Hands on exercise & solution	08:52
120	Hands on exercise & solution	05:24
121	Hands on exercise & solution	06:20
122	Introduction to Docker	02:39
123	Virtual machines & containers	02:40
124	Installing docker	09:54
125	Docker whalesay example	05:19
126	Using a Dockerfile to build an image	08:05
127	Launching a container running curl	12:48
128	Running a Go web app in a Docker container	04:50
129	Pushing & pulling to docker hub	05:23
130	Go, Docker & Amazon Web Services (AWS)	08:56
131	Installing Postgres	09:13
132	Create database	07:33
133	Create table	05:35
134	Insert records	03:23
135	Auto increment primary key	00:49
136	Hands-on exercise	02:32
137	Hands-on exercise - solution	05:43
138	Relational databases	07:07
139	Query - cross join	06:29
140	Query - inner join	09:57
141	Query - three table inner join	05:03
142	Query - outer joins	01:08
143	Clauses	00:43
144	Update a record	04:46
145	Delete a record	07:38
146	Users - create, grant, alter, remove	08:59
147	Go & Postgres	04:57
148	Select query	04:56
149	Web app	07:29
150	Query Row	04:06
151	Insert record	01:30
152	Update record	11:24
153	Delete record	11:33
154	Code organization	10:11
155	NoSQL	10:53
156	MongoDB	06:58
157	Installing mongo	03:53
158	Database	06:58
159	Collection	03:53
160	Document	03:50
161	Find (aka, query)	06:15
162	Update	06:59
163	Remove	02:00
164	Projection	02:45
165	Limit	01:05
166	Sort	02:52
167	Index	01:24
168	Aggregation	04:33
169	Users	09:20
170	JSON	04:41
171	Create Read Update Delete (CRUD)	16:59

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171 lessons · 18h 59m 31s

Show all 171 lessons

1 Why Go For Web Dev 07:40
2 Prerequisites 01:36
3 Resources 02:33
4 Language review 18:31
5 How to succeed 08:13
6 Understanding templates 03:28
7 Templating with concatenation 06:26
8 Understanding package text/template: parsing & executing templates 16:53
9 Passing data into templates 03:58
10 Variables in templates 02:29
11 Passing composite data structures into templates 14:58
12 Functions in templates 15:12
13 Pipelines in templates 09:55
14 Predefined global functions in templates 06:11
15 Nesting templates - modularizing your code 07:52
16 Passing data into templates & composition 05:39
17 Using methods in templates 03:38
18 Hands-on exercises 01:59
19 Using package html/template, character escaping, & cross-site scripting 03:37
20 Understanding servers 10:09
21 TCP server - write to connection 06:56
22 TCP server - read from connection using bufio.Scanner 10:34
23 TCP server - read from & write to connection 04:26
24 TCP server - code a client 04:48
25 TCP server - rot13 & in-memory database 09:57
26 TCP server - HTTP request / response foundation hands-on exercise 06:57
27 TCP server - HTTP method & URI retrieval hands-on exercise 05:04
28 TCP server - HTTP multiplexer 05:04
29 net/http package - an overview 09:22
30 Understanding & using ListenAndServe 05:23
31 Foundation of net/http: Handler, ListenAndServe, Request, ResponseWriter 08:27
32 Retrieving form values - exploring *http.Request 15:08
33 Retrieving other request values - exploring *http.Request 08:11
34 Exploring http.ResponseWriter - writing headers to the response 07:36
35 Review 07:14
36 Understanding ServeMux 16:27
37 Disambiguation: func(ResponseWriter, *Request) vs. HandlerFunc 08:03
38 Third-party servemux - Julien Schmidt’s router 08:47
39 Hands-on exercises 01:15
40 Hands-on exercises - solutions #1 04:21
41 Hands-on exercises - solutions #2 04:21
42 Serving a file with io.Copy 19:57
43 Serving a file with http.ServeContent & http.ServeFile 05:03
44 Serving a file with http.FileServer 03:54
45 Serving a file with http.FileServer & http.StripPrefix 03:50
46 Creating a static file server with http.FileServer 06:01
47 log.Fatal & http.Error 03:11
48 Hands-on exercises 04:01
49 Hands-on exercises - solutions 01:00
50 The http.NotFoundHandler 05:52
51 Buying a domain - Google domains 05:48
52 Deploying to Google Cloud 02:17
53 State overview 07:53
54 Passing values through the URL 01:20
55 Passing values from forms 06:23
56 Uploading a file, reading the file, creating a file on the server 05:30
57 Enctype 11:55
58 Redirects - overview 01:01
59 Redirects - diagrams & documentation 06:33
60 Redirects - in practice 07:56
61 Cookies - overview 07:44
62 Cookies - writing and reading 03:32
63 Writing multiple cookies & hands-on exercise 05:21
64 Hands-on exercise solution: creating a counter with cookies 02:12
65 Deleting a cookie 03:20
66 Sessions 06:38
67 Universally unique identifier - UUID 07:27
68 Your first session 08:32
69 Sign-up 12:00
70 Encrypt password with bcrypt 06:01
71 Login 05:21
72 Logout 07:08
73 Permissions 04:05
74 Expire session 03:21
75 Overview 08:26
76 Creating a virtual server instance on AWS EC2 07:21
77 Hello world on AWS 10:51
78 Persisting an application 12:02
79 Hands-on Exercise 04:43
80 Hands-on Solution 02:14
81 Terminating AWS services 16:00
82 Overview 01:32
83 Installing MySQL - Locally 06:25
84 Installing MySQL - AWS 02:45
85 Connect Workbench to MySQL on AWS 06:29
86 Go & SQL - Setup 04:40
87 Go & SQL - In Practice 04:38
88 Overview of load balancers 07:44
89 Create EC2 security groups 03:39
90 Create an ELB load balancer 06:32
91 Implementing the load balancer 08:00
92 Connecting to your MySQL server using MySQL workbench 13:49
93 Hands-on exercise 05:12
94 Hands-on solution 01:06
95 Autoscaling & CloudFront 18:52
96 Starting files 12:43
97 User data 04:33
98 Storing Multiple Values 05:45
99 Uploading pictures 03:37
100 Displaying pictures 08:52
101 Hash message authentication code (HMAC) 01:26
102 Base64 encoding 04:29
103 Web storage 03:07
104 Context 05:31
105 TLS & HTTPS 13:19
106 JSON - JavaScript Object Notation 09:46
107 Go & JSON - Marshal & Encode 04:31
108 Unmarshal JSON with Go 09:48
109 Unmarshal JSON with Go using Tags 10:28
110 Hands-on exercise solution 10:01
111 AJAX introduction 02:09
112 AJAX server side 11:50
113 Organizing code into packages 12:13
114 Create user & delete user 10:13
115 MVC design pattern - model view controller 04:29
116 Install mongodb 06:37
117 Connect to mongodb 04:58
118 CRUD with Go & mongodb 05:29
119 Hands on exercise & solution 08:52
120 Hands on exercise & solution 05:24
121 Hands on exercise & solution 06:20
122 Introduction to Docker 02:39
123 Virtual machines & containers 02:40
124 Installing docker 09:54
125 Docker whalesay example 05:19
126 Using a Dockerfile to build an image 08:05
127 Launching a container running curl 12:48
128 Running a Go web app in a Docker container 04:50
129 Pushing & pulling to docker hub 05:23
130 Go, Docker & Amazon Web Services (AWS) 08:56
131 Installing Postgres 09:13
132 Create database 07:33
133 Create table 05:35
134 Insert records 03:23
135 Auto increment primary key 00:49
136 Hands-on exercise 02:32
137 Hands-on exercise - solution 05:43
138 Relational databases 07:07
139 Query - cross join 06:29
140 Query - inner join 09:57
141 Query - three table inner join 05:03
142 Query - outer joins 01:08
143 Clauses 00:43
144 Update a record 04:46
145 Delete a record 07:38
146 Users - create, grant, alter, remove 08:59
147 Go & Postgres 04:57
148 Select query 04:56
149 Web app 07:29
150 Query Row 04:06
151 Insert record 01:30
152 Update record 11:24
153 Delete record 11:33
154 Code organization 10:11
155 NoSQL 10:53
156 MongoDB 06:58
157 Installing mongo 03:53
158 Database 06:58
159 Collection 03:53
160 Document 03:50
161 Find (aka, query) 06:15
162 Update 06:59
163 Remove 02:00
164 Projection 02:45
165 Limit 01:05
166 Sort 02:52
167 Index 01:24
168 Aggregation 04:33
169 Users 09:20
170 JSON 04:41
171 Create Read Update Delete (CRUD) 16:59

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