If you have built a web application before, you surely know that there are quite a lot of concepts to keep in your head.
HTTP, HTML, CSS, JSON, databases, sessions, cookies, forms, middleware, routing and controllers are just a few among
the many things your web app may need to interact with.
While each one of these things can be important in the building of your web applications, not every one of them is
important for any given app. For instance, a web API may just use JSON as it's serialization format, thus making concepts
like HTML not relevant for that particular web app.
The Go community understands this dilemma. Rather than rely on large, heavyweight frameworks that try to cover all the
bases, Go programmers pull in the bare necessities to get the job done. This minimalist approach to web programming
may be off-putting at first, but the result of this effort is a much simpler program in the end.
Go makes things simple, it's as easy as that. If we train ourselves to align with the "Go way" of programming for the web,
we will end up with more simple, flexible, and maintainable web applications.
As we go through the exercises in this book, I think you will be surprised by how simple some of these programs can be
whilst still affording a bunch of functionality.
When sitting down to craft your own web applications in Go, think hard about the components and concepts that your app
will be focused on, and use just those pieces. This book will be covering a wide array of web topics, but do not feel
obligated to use them all. In the words of our friend Lonestar, "Take only what you need to survive".
Go Makes Things Simple
The Go Way
Power in Simplicity
