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Echo Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Echo Quick Start Guide Build lightweight and high-performance web apps with Echo

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789139433
Length 136 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Group routing

Alluded to earlier, there exists a grouping capability for defined routes within the Echo framework. Grouping of routes allows for simple logical groupings of sets of resources with a base prefix. A great example that works well with grouped routes is when you wish to have a target resource path versioned API, such as providing /v1/login and /v1/logout, as well as /v2/login and /v2/logout. This happens to be a very common way in which developers can prevent breakage of their API from major changes to the API. Typically, if the schema of the request or response changes, it is a best practice to create a new version of those resource targets. This helps identify to developers integrating with your API that there is a breaking change between the two APIs.

In this example, we would create a /v1/ and a /v2 group with the Group method, which is declared in the following...

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