Live Reload Go Projects with wgo
Building web apps in Go is extremely rewarding. However, as Go’s a compiled language, to see changes, you need to restart the app. Needless to say that’s quite tedious! With live reloading, it doesn’t need to be.
Go Articles and Tutorials
Restrict HTTP Request Methods in Go 1.22
Restricting HTTP request methods, when working with net/http prior to Go 1.22 was a little complicated. However, that’s all changed. Now, it’s pretty trivial. In this short tutorial, I’ll show you the new approach.
Go mod tidy - A Quick Introduction
What is go mod tidy and why you would use it? In this short tutorial you’ll get a brief introduction to what it is and see the essentials of how to use it.
Debug Go Code with Visual Studio Code
Recently, I started debugging Go code using Visual Studio Code. Some minor hiccups aside, it was pretty trivial to get up and going. This is the short version of what you need to do to get started.
How I Deployed a Go app With a SQLite Database on Fly.io
Recently, I deployed a Go-powered app backed by an SQLite database on Fly.io for the first time. Here’s the process that I went through, along with some of the issues that I encountered along the way.
Understanding Go's Empty Interface
Recently, while working with the Twilio Lookup API, I had the opportunity to properly learn about Go’s empty interface. During the process, I realised that I didn’t understand it properly, so took the opportunity to do so. Today, I am going to step through what it is and how simple they are to work with.
Restrict Allowed Route Methods in Go Web Apps
It’s incredibly easy to build web apps and APIs using Go’s net/http package. All you really need to do is to specify a route and its handler. But, how do you restrict the methods that routes can accept? In this short tutorial, I’ll show you how.
Go Interfaces Make Development and Testing Easier
Substitutability or the Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) is a concept that I’ve tried to adhere to for some years when writing code. It’s beneficial for many reasons, but particularly when testing, as it can indirectly force you to write code that is more testable. Recently, I’ve started appreciating how it works in Go, and will step through how in this short article.
Learning Golang, Day 14 – Removing Code Duplication
Today, on day 14, I created a custom method to remove code duplication creeping into the weather station codebase. Come read the fun story behind getting that done.
Learning Golang, Day 13 – Regular Expressions and the Gorilla Mux Router
Here we are on day 13. Today, I continued learning Golang by working on the Golang version of my PHP/Python weather station, adding a function to render static pages. Let me share my learnings with you.
Learning Golang, Day 12 – I'm Feeling Frustrated!
Here we are on day 12. I didn’t solve anything. I’m feeling that these exercises are becoming arbitrary and pointless.
Learning Golang, Day 11 – I Solved the Stringers Exercise!
Here we are on day 11, where I solved the Stringers Exercise.
Learning Golang, Day 10 – Type Assertions, Type Switches, and Stringers.
Here we are on day 10. Today I read about and played with Type Assertions, Type Switches, and Stringers in Go.
Learning Golang, Day 9 – Go's Empty Interface.
Here we are on day 9. Today, I dove down a proverbial rabbit hole. While intending to learn more about Go’s Empty Interface, I ended up reading about Abductive and Deductive reasoning, and Duck, structured, and nominal typing.
Learning Golang. Day 8
Here we are on day 8. Today, I started learning about methods, pointer receivers, and interfaces.
Learning Golang. Day 7
Here we are on day 7. Today, I started learning about closures!
Learning Golang. Day 6
Here we are on day 6 – the start of the week two. Today, was a slower day, where I focused on one topic, maps!
Learning Golang. Day 5
Here we are on day 5 – the end of the first week. Today, I solved the Slices exercise!
Learning Golang. Day 4
Here I am at day 4. Today, I learned about the range function and started the slices exercise…but got stuck.
Learning Golang. Day 3
Here I am at day 3. Today, I started learning about pointers, arrays, slices, and structs!
Learning Golang. Day 2
Today was a slightly slower day for learning Go than was yesterday. However, I learned about flow control statements, and defer, panic, and recover.
Learning Golang. Day 1
For the longest time, I’ve been meaning to learn another software development language in-depth, in addition to my primary development language, PHP. I’ve decided that the language is Go.