In this chapter, we built a Metro Rail API with the help of a few web frameworks available in Go. The most popular ones are go-restful, Gin Gonic, and revel.go. We have introduced a database layer in this chapter. We chose SQLite3 and tried to write a sample application using the go-sqlite3 library.
We then explored go-restful and looked in detail at how to create routes and handlers. go-restful has the concept of building APIs on top of resources. We explained why go-restful is lightweight and can be used to create low-latency APIs.
Next, we introduced the Gin framework and tried to re-implement the railAPI. Finally, we tried to create another API on the train resource, but this time with the revel.go web framework. Revel is a framework that is similar to Django and Ruby on Rails. It provides scaffolding for most of the server needs such as routing, handlers, and middleware...
