Starting With Go + ReactJS

As in the description from the Go respository: "Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software."

TL;DR: If you want to deep into the Go language, you can follow the Go tour wich is the best starting point to start working with Go and also a recommendation is to look into the community, wich is very active and is one of the most welcoming communities.

Here are some of the main Go benefits:

Strongly typed and garbage collected
Blazing fast compile times
Concurrency built in (You may be interested in this: Concurrency is no parallelism)
Extensive standard library

Futher Reading

GIN

Gin is a micro-framework written in GO (golang). it features a martini-like API with much better performance (Everyone loves perf ;) ). Gin carries with the most essential features, libraries, and functionalities needed to build web apps and micro-services. It makes simple to build a request handling pipeline from modular, reusable pieces.

Prerequisites

In order to follow along with this tutorial, you will need to hace Go installed on your machine (you can read the official docs), a command line and of course a web browser.

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Ready, set, GO!

$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/user/golang-gin
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/user/golang-gin
$ touch go

The content of the maing.go file:

package main

import (
  "net/http"

  "github.com/gin-gonic/contrib/static"
  "github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
)

func main() {
  // Set the router as the default one shipped with Gin
  router := gin.Default()

  // Serve frontend static files
  router.Use(static.Serve("/", static.LocalFile("./views", true)))

  // Setup route group for the API
  api := router.Group("/api")
  {
    api.GET("/", func(c *gin.Context) {
      c.JSON(http.StatusOK, gin.H {
        "message": "pong",
      })
    })
  }

  // Start and run the server
  router.Run(":3000")
}

Josiastech/go-react

Starting With Go + ReactJS

GIN

Prerequisites

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