Loading/converting to JSON

• The encoding/json package
• Rules for un/marshalling JSON
• Loading a JSON configuration file
• Serving web pages with Go
  • The http package
  • The http.Handler interface
  • Setting up a request multiplexer

Generating dynamic pages

• The Go web template engine
• Review of builtin functions
• How to inject data in pages
• Setting up a REST API (with Gorilla or gin-gonic library)
  • Overview of the setup
  • URL matching & handlers
  • Labwork with frontend test code

Setting up a JSON-RPC API

• Overview of the setup
• Working with RPC librairies
• Exercise with frontend test code

Using gRPC

• Introduction to the protobuf DSL
• Codegen with the protoc compiler
• Using a gRPC API

Working with SQL databases

• Using a mysql or postgres driver
• SQL queries with standard lib
• SQL queries with the sqlx util lib
• Example with an application

Working with NoSQL databases

• Overview of the NoSQL DBs
• Working with JSON
• Exercises with BoltDB