Introduction Recently it’s a constantly repeated buzzword – Microservices. You can love ’em or hate ’em, but you really shouldn’t ignore ’em. In this short series we’ll create a web app using a microservice architecture. We’ll try not to use 3rd party tools and libraries. Remember though that when creating a production web app it is highly recommended to use 3rd party libraries (even if only to save you time)....
Introduction Integrating Google services into your app can lead to a lot of nice features for your users, and can create a seamless experience for them. In this tutorial we’ll learn how to use the most useful functionalities of Google Calendar and Google Drive. The theory To begin with, we should understand the methodology of using the Google API in Golang. For most of their API’s I’ve skimmed through it works like that:...
Introduction This is the first post in the practical Golang series. Posts in it are meant to provide short and informative introductions to various topics. This one is a about websockets, which are an awesome and easy way to provide communication between your web app and server. Here we will use the gorilla websocket library, but you could also use a few others. We will create two basic apps which should cover most day to day usage:...
Introduction Authentication is usually a crucial part in any web app. You could always roll your own authentication mechanics if you wanted, however, this creates an additional barrier between the user and your web app: Registration. That’s why OAuth, and earlier OAuth2, was created. It makes it much more convenient to log in to your app, because the user can log in with one of the many accounts he already has....