Summary

In this chapter, you were introduced to the server side of web programming. You learned how to accept requests from HTTP clients and respond appropriately. You also learned how to separate the possible requests into different areas of an HTTP server via paths and sub-paths. For this, you used a simple routing mechanism with the standard Go HTTP package.

Then, you learned how to return your response to suit different consumers: JSON responses for synthetic clients, and HTML pages for human access.

Next, you learned how to use templates to format your plain text and HTML messages, using the standard templating package. You learned how to serve and use static resources, serving them directly through a default file server or a template object.

After that, you learned how to create a middleware and how to embed external files inside your binary for better portability. At this stage, you know all the basics for building production-grade HTTP servers, although you might want...