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Hands-On Full Stack Development with Go

You're reading from   Hands-On Full Stack Development with Go Build full stack web applications with Go, React, Gin, and GopherJS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789130751
Length 324 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mina Andrawos Mina Andrawos
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Go Language FREE CHAPTER
2. Welcome to Full Stack Go 3. Building Blocks of the Go Language 4. Go Concurrency 5. Section 2: The Frontend
6. Frontend with React.js 7. Building a Frontend for GoMusic 8. Section 3: Web APIs and Middleware in Go
9. RESTful Web APIs in Go with the Gin Framework 10. Advanced Web Go Applications with Gin and React 11. Testing and Benchmarking Your Web API 12. Introduction to Isomorphic Go with GopherJS 13. Where to Go from Here? 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Credit card handling

We already implemented the credit card logic at the frontend in Chapter 5, Building a Frontend for GoMusic. It's now time to implement the backend part of our credit card handling.

For credit card processing at the frontend, we made use of the Stripe API (https://stripe.com/docs/api). In a product environment, you would need to create an account with Stripe and obtain an API key to use for your application. For testing purposes, however, we can make use of testing API keys and test credit card numbers, which Stripe happily provides for developers to build productive apps that are capable of processing credit cards. To learn more about testing credit card numbers and testing tokens that are provided by Stripe, take a look at https://stripe.com/docs/testing.

In our frontend code, we made use of the following Stripe API code to create a token:

let { token...
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