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Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go

Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go

By : Yellavula
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Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go

Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go

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By: Yellavula

Overview of this book

Building RESTful web services can be tough as there are countless standards and ways to develop API. In modern architectures such as microservices, RESTful APIs are common in communication, making idiomatic and scalable API development crucial. This book covers basic through to advanced API development concepts and supporting tools. You’ll start with an introduction to REST API development before moving on to building the essential blocks for working with Go. You’ll explore routers, middleware, and available open source web development solutions in Go to create robust APIs, and understand the application and database layers to build RESTful web services. You’ll learn various data formats like protocol buffers and JSON, and understand how to serve them over HTTP and gRPC. After covering advanced topics such as asynchronous API design and GraphQL for building scalable web services, you’ll discover how microservices can benefit from REST. You’ll also explore packaging artifacts in the form of containers and understand how to set up an ideal deployment ecosystem for web services. Finally, you’ll cover the provisioning of infrastructure using infrastructure as code (IaC) and secure your REST API. By the end of the book, you’ll have intermediate knowledge of web service development and be able to apply the skills you’ve learned in a practical way.
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Creating a CLI tool as an API client for the GitHub REST API

After looking at this example, we'll be able to easily access the GitHub API from our Go client. We can combine both of the techniques we've learned about in this chapter to come up with a command-line tool that consumes the GitHub API. Let's create a new command-line application that does the following:

  • Provides options to get repository details by username
  • Uploads a file to GitHub gist (text snippets) with a given description
  • Authenticates using a personal access token

We'll use the cli package and grequests to build this tool. You can re-implement the same example in cobra too.

Gist are snippets provided by GitHub that store text content. For more details, visit https://gist.github.com.

Create a directory called gitTool in this chapter's directory and add the main file to it, like so:

mkdir...

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