Building Better Go Web Apps with the Gorilla Toolkit

By Mike Van Sickle
This course will introduce the Gorilla Toolkit and show how each of its packages can be used to enhance a Go-powered web application.
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(44)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Aug 28, 2015
Duration
4h 23m
Table of contents
Introduction
Introduction 2m The Gorilla Toolkit 7m The Development Environment 6m The Demo Application 4m Overview of the Demo Code 10m Summary 1m
Gorilla/Mux: Parameterized Routing
Introduction 5m Parameterized Routing 3m Demo: Scheme Matchers 7m Demo: PathPrefix Matchers 2m Demo: Path Matchers 4m Demo: Method Matchers 2m Demo: Query Matchers 2m Demo: Subrouters 2m Demo: Application of Parameterized Routes 12m Summary 2m
Gorilla/Reverse: Creating Strongly Typed Routes
Introduction 2m Regular Expressions 2m Basic Matchers 4m Composite Matchers 4m Reversing Regular Expressions 3m Route Templates 8m Demo: Reversed Regular Expressions and Route Patterns 6m Summary 2m
Gorilla/Context: Sharing Data Between Application Layers
Introduction 2m Getting and Setting Data 2m Deleting Data 3m Retrieving Data with GetAll and GetOK 4m Purging a Context 2m Building a Request Filter to Centralize Logic 6m Summary 2m
Gorilla/Schema: Binding Form Data
Introduction 4m Basic Form Decoding 3m Mapping to Object Hierarchies 1m Mapping to Slices 1m Custom Field Names 2m Demo: Mapping HTML Forms to Structs 5m Demo: Creating a Custom Decoder Function 3m Summary 1m
Gorilla/Securecookie: Securing Sensitive Information
Introduction 1m Basic Cookies 1m Demo: Basic Cookies 2m Authenticating Cookies with HMAC 2m Demo: Creating Authenticated Cookies 4m Encrypting a Cookie's Value 1m Demo: Encrypting a Cookie's Value 7m Decoding a cookie 2m Using Secure Cookies to Store Information 7m Summary 1m
Gorilla/RPC: Creating Remote Procedure Calls
Introduction 2m Types of Web Services 3m RPC in Go 2m Creating a Basic RPC Server 7m Using JSON-RPC directly 4m Executing Functions Before and After Service Method Calls 4m Implementing an RPC Server 5m Implementing an RPC Client 8m Summary 1m
Gorilla/Sessions: Persisting Information Between Calls
Introduction 2m Creating a Session 4m Reading from a Session 2m Preventing Memory Leaks with Sessions 3m Working with File-based Sessions 2m Creating Flash Messages 3m Session Options 3m Building a Shopping Cart with Sessions 8m Summary 2m
Gorilla/WebSocket: Real-time Communication with WebSockets
Introduction 2m Creating a Basic WebSocket 6m Using Readers and Writers 2m Working with JSON Objects 4m WebSocket Message Types 4m Real-time Logging with WebSockets 11m Summary 2m
Description
Course info
Rating
(44)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Aug 28, 2015
Duration
4h 23m
Description

Go comes packaged with a great set of tools and libraries to get you started developing web applications, but there are some gaps that make it difficult to create a complete solution. In this course, I will introduce you to the Gorilla Toolkit, a set of packages that augments Go’s base libraries to add critical features like parameterized routing and session management.

About the author
Mike Van Sickle
About the author

Michael Van Sickle is an application architect in Akron, Ohio. He is a mechanical engineer by training and a software engineer by choice. He is passionate about learning new programming languages and user experience design.

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