Learn HTTP Servers in Go
Build the server side of the web: routes, middleware, auth, and APIs in Go.
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What will you learn?
Learn how to build and HTTP web server from scratch in the Go programming language. You'll build a production ready JSON API using fairly minimalistic tools. You'll incorporate middleware, routing, logging, webhooks, authentication, authorization, JWTs, and more. This course is the coup-de-grace for any aspiring backend developer.
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This course is understandable and you'll really learn the basics on building a server. It cements the things you need to be able to do and lets you learn everything you need to know to get a server up and running. It touches on a lot of different aspects, so you'll understand software, networking and security in a more thorough way. Would recommend!
Thijs Dekker
Utrecht, the Netherlands
more difficult than previous ones
Peter
Netherlands
Very solid course, I feel like I learned a lot about database migrations and endpoints / routing and middleware.
Trindon Woolsey
United States
Fantastic, really satisfying
Sam Mumford
SoCal, CA, USA
perfect course and good level of difficulty for introducing new and relevant content
Huy Pham
Adelaide, Australia
really really good teaches a lot of fundamentals that can be used when building other servers
Omar Najib Zamir
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Great foray into working with json, http requests, tokens, authentication.
Kyle Chermak
United States
hard lesson made me struggle in a good way
Ambuj Seth
Lucknow, India
Super basic things, would be cool to see some complicated SQL queries, different authentication types - like one user can write & read, another only read. More details on how to maintain lots of routes, how to build project structure for that.
Артем Лапкин
Ukraine
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