Go Web Development: Create Powerful Servers With Golang

The Easiest Guide to Building Scalable Servers!

What you'll learn

Create a fully functional Go web server, handle HTTP requests, and deploy the server on AWS

Validate user input and ensure data integrity in Go servers

Set Up and Manage HTTP Routes and Middleware in Go.

Understand how to connect Go server to database (such as PostgreSQL) using docker from scratch

Integrate Google OAuth for User Authentication in Go Servers. ( Frontend app in react available )

Learn to build fast and scalable web servers with the Gin framework in Go

Learn how to deploy to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Learn to security best practice to connect with AWS RDS.

Requirements

This course is beginner-friendly but ideal for those with around 1 year of programming experience. Basic knowledge of programming concepts (variables, loops, conditionals) will be helpful. No prior experience with Go or the Gin framework is required—I'll guide you through everything step by step!

Description

Are you ready to take your programming skills to the next level with Go (Golang)? Whether you’re a beginner looking to break into backend development or an experienced developer wanting to enhance your expertise, this course will help you master Go and build robust, scalable, and high-performance applications.Go, developed by Google, is one of the fastest-growing programming languages known for its simplicity, efficiency, and concurrency support. It powers applications at top tech companies like Google, Uber, Dropbox, and Netflix. If you want to learn how to build web applications, APIs, and scalable backend systems, this course is the perfect starting point.What You’ll Learn in This Course Introduction to Go – Learn the fundamentals, including syntax, data types, variables, functions, and control structures. Go’s Unique Features – Understand interfaces, structs, slices, and pointers for efficient data handling. Concurrency in Go – Master Goroutines and channels to build fast, parallel applications. Error Handling & Logging – Learn Go’s approach to handling errors and logging for debugging. Building RESTful APIs – Create and deploy RESTful web services using Go and Gin framework. Working with Databases – Learn how to interact with databases using GORM (ORM for Go).  Deployment & Best Practices – Deploy your Go applications on AWS Elastic beanStalk.Why Learn Go?Fast & Efficient: Go compiles to machine code, making it faster than interpreted languages like Python and JavaScript.Scalability: Go is perfect for handling multiple tasks efficiently.Simplicity & Readability: Go’s syntax is easy to learn, making it beginner-friendly.Used by Top Companies: Many big tech companies use Go for their high-performance systems.Who Is This Course For?  Beginners who want to learn Go from scratch and build real-world projects.  Backend Developers looking to switch to Go for its scalability and performance.  Software Engineers who want to understand concurrency and optimize backend services.What You’ll Get  Source code for all lessons  Lifetime accessBy the end of this course, you'll be able to write production-ready Go applications and build scalable APIs

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: First server

Lecture 2 Install Go

Lecture 3 First Go Server

Section 3: Gin setup

Lecture 4 Why we are using gin?

Lecture 5 Installing GIN

Section 4: Environment Setup

Lecture 6 Understanding need of Environment

Lecture 7 Setting up Project Environment

Section 5: Postgres setup with docker

Lecture 8 Story behind docker for database

Lecture 9 Connecting Database with GO

Section 6: Live reloading

Lecture 10 Setup AIR

Section 7: Post Request

Lecture 11 Introduction

Lecture 12 Creating Post route

Lecture 13 User data validation

Lecture 14 Understanding Reason Behind Migration

Lecture 15 Migration Setup

Lecture 16 Saving data to Postgres

Lecture 17 Outro

Section 8: Code hygiene

Lecture 18 Cleaning code

Lecture 19 Make migration easy

Lecture 20 Handle 404

Section 9: Read, Update and delete APIs

Lecture 21 Get Tasks

Lecture 22 Update Task

Lecture 23 Delete Task

Section 10: Authentication

Lecture 24 Introduction

Lecture 25 Creating Google console project

Lecture 26 Fetching Google OAuth Token

Lecture 27 Signing JWT token

Lecture 28 Updating .env file

Section 11: Middleware in GO

Lecture 29 Introduction

Lecture 30 Verify JWT with Middleware

Section 12: Deploying Go Server

Lecture 31 Setup AWS cli locally.

Lecture 32 Deploy Basic go app to elastic beanstalk

Lecture 33 Create and connect AWS RDS to go server

Backend developer curious about GO lang,Developer trying to build high speed and low cost web server