You're reading from Building Distributed Applications in Gin A hands-on guide for Go developers to build and deploy distributed web apps with the Gin framework

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801074858

Length 482 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Gideros

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Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Mohamed Labouardy

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Inside the Gin Framework

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Gin FREE CHAPTER

3. Section 2: Distributed Microservices

4. Chapter 2: Setting Up API Endpoints

5. Chapter 3: Managing Data Persistence with MongoDB

6. Chapter 4: Building API Authentication

7. Chapter 5: Serving Static HTML in Gin

8. Chapter 6: Scaling a Gin Application

9. Section 3: Beyond the Basics

10. Chapter 7: Testing Gin HTTP Routes

11. Chapter 8: Deploying the Application on AWS

12. Chapter 9: Implementing a CI/CD Pipeline

13. Chapter 10: Capturing Gin Application Metrics

14. Assessments

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Serving static files

In the previous chapters, you have seen how to render API responses in JSON and XML formats. In this chapter, you will learn how you can render different types of responses. We will start by serving a basic index.html file and then move on to serving static files, such as JavaScript, CSS files, and images from a filesystem, and eventually render HTML templates.

To start serving static files, follow these steps:

Create a new project folder and open it with the VSCode IDE. Then, create an index.html file to display a Hello world message with an <h2> tag, as follows:
```
<html>
<head>
   <title>Recipes Platform</title>
</head>
<body>
   <h2>Hello world</h2>
</body>
</html>
```
Next, with the go get command, install github.com/gin-gonic/gin, write a main.go file, and define a router with the gin.Default() method. Then, define a route for the index page and register...