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Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go

You're reading from   Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go Develop elegant RESTful APIs with Golang for microservices and the cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838643577
Length 404 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Naren Yellavula Naren Yellavula
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Preface 1. Getting Started with REST API Development 2. Handling Routing for our REST Services FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Middleware and RPC 4. Simplifying RESTful Services with Popular Go Frameworks 5. Working with MongoDB and Go to Create a REST API 6. Working with Protocol Buffers and gRPC 7. Working with PostgreSQL, JSON, and Go 8. Building a REST API Client in Go 9. Asynchronous API Design 10. GraphQL and Go 11. Scaling our REST API Using Microservices 12. Containerizing REST Services for Deployment 13. Deploying REST Services on Amazon Web Services 14. Handling Authentication for our REST Services 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building a RESTful API with revel.go

revel.go is also a fully-fledged web framework like Python's Django. It is older than Gin and is termed as a highly productive web framework. It is an asynchronous, modular, and stateless framework. Unlike the go-restful and Gin frameworks where we created the project ourselves, Revel generates a scaffold for working directly:

  1. Install revel.go using the following command:
go get github.com/revel/revel  
  1. In order to run the scaffold tool, we should install one more supplementary package:
go get github.com/revel/cmd/revel

Make sure that $GOPATH/bin is in your PATH variable. Some external packages install the binary in the $GOPATH/bin directory. If it is in the path, we can access the executables system wide. Here, Revel installs a binary called revel.

  1. On Ubuntu or Mac OS X, you can make sure to point Go binaries to the system path using...
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