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web-dev-golang-anti-textbook
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thewhitetulip / web-dev-golang-anti-textbook

web-dev-golang-anti-textbook

Learn how to write webapps without a framework in Go.

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Learn how to write webapps without a framework in Go.

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https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... Stopped making money for me a long time ago. I don't have a computer to update the tutorial sadly, since my…

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Observed mentions: 2016-01-30 11:09:49 UTC to 2020-02-12 11:09:28 UTC.

01020302016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 26 mentions; 3 submissions, 23 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 16 mentions; 0 submissions, 16 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC16016
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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giancarlostoro·Dec 29, 2018
I've been wanting to learn Go web development without having to dive into using any of the existing frameworks, I want to be able to look at the standard docs, and only use libraries as the need makes sense, e.g. for database. So I found this e-book through a list of e-books. I figure someone else out there might be interested in the same. GitHub for book: https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...
In Webapps in Go – How to write webapps without a framework
thewhitetulip·Jun 21, 2018
This is a touchy topic. I learnt Go programming language & writing webapps in it after reading loads of books and articles which suffered from the curse of knowledge. I'd start with the first few chapters and then would be totally clueless. I figured out that the curse of knowledge is huge. Once you learn how to write webapps they become trivial and that's the reason why few books written by "experts" targetting newbies are utterly of no use. But of course that doesn't absolve the tutorial creator from her responsibility of writing a decent tutorial and with the advent of Github it has become a collaborative effort! It is a sad thing that masters write books for beginners. No, a beginner shouldn't be taught how to use the stdlib, they don't understand half of the things (prose) mentioned in the book. Lead by examples, show that it is not
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magic and that it is actually very easy to write a webapp in Go but it ia difficult to write a really good one. Link to my tutorial: https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... I later did the same with Vue.js and Python but didn't get time to finish/update them. I also run or used to run a youtube channel which also has got good positive feedback from new comers because they get to the point with practical examples
In Learn new technology through writing a tutorial about it
thewhitetulip·Feb 15, 2017
Why naive? I was a beginner 3yrs ago in web development and Go. I wanted to learn how to build a webapp (I didn't and still don't know enough JS), I didn't get lost in the big maze of angular, react. I ignored the complicated stuff, I learned how to write a webapp[1], that was using pure HTML, then I learned Go, then I wrote a webapp. I wrote a todo list manager [2] Then, after I was comfortable with everything did I start learning AJAX, I chose Vue.JS and I migrated the app I wrote in pure HTML to use Go [3] and wrote a guide about it [4]. I pissed a lot of people of VueJS project when I raised this [5] issue, yes, in hindsight I do realize that I was rude to them, but their documentation had a problem (and I had already said sorry if I was rude) I still don't know how to use websockets and what not, or how to write load balancers or dis
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tributed database, or web proxy or cache or other things to be done at scale, I choose to ignore them as of now, as I build my capability to understand or until I need of them. This is what I meant by that statement. >they'd pretty much freeze up You know, in 2010, I still remember the first C programming class (I had not understood a single word) I had in my college, I froze and for a minute questioned if I had made the right decision to enter computer science. The point is that newcomers need to know what they can ignore while they learn the basics, it is not possible to learn everything in one go. Nobody teaches you real life, it just happens, and as a newbie it is my responsibility to learn in the best way I can without getting overwhelmed, and no, it is not a disparaging statement! Also, this is why I started Multiversity[6], this is a YouTube channel which teaches by example. [1] https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... [2] https://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks [3] https://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks-vue [4] https://github.com/thewhitetulip/intro-to-vuejs/ [5] https://github.com/vuejs/vuejs.org/issues/565 [6] https://github.com/thewhitetulip/multiversity
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