Learning Go: Part Eleven — Web API & Services

This presents an overview of building API with Gorilla/Mux asnd Gin.

Learn Go Series

• Part One — Basic Concepts
• Part Two — Types, Loops and Flow Control
• Part Three — Functions and Pointers
• Part Four — Collections, Arrays, Maps and Slices
• Part Five — Interfaces, Structs and File Processing
• Part Six — Command Line Processing and Config Files
• Part Seven — Project Structure, Packages and Modules
• Part Eight — Concurrency and Channels
• Part Nine — Generics and Error Handling
• Part Ten — Builder Pattern, Logging & Testing
• Part Eleven- Web APIs — this article

Introduction

This is Part Eleven in the Learning Go series. This will cover building Web APIs for exposing our applications functionality over an API. We will be using the Mux framework.

Setup