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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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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

Introduction to Isomorphic Go with GopherJS

So far, we have covered how to write our frontend using JavaScript. However, if you prefer to use Go in the frontend, there is an option for that. This option is known as GopherJS, which is a popular Go package combined with a set of commands with only one purpose: to compile (also known as transpiling) Go code to JavaScript. Once Go code is compiled to JavaScript, the code could be utilized in the frontend component similarly to JavaScript. An application that relies on the same programming language for the frontend and the backend is known as an isomorphic application.

Like any other software-design approach, writing isomorphic applications has its own pros and cons. The chief advantage is the convenience and speed of development that comes with using a single programming language that you are really good at for most of your code....

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