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Building Distributed Applications in Gin

You're reading from   Building Distributed Applications in Gin A hands-on guide for Go developers to build and deploy distributed web apps with the Gin framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801074858
Length 482 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohamed Labouardy Mohamed Labouardy
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Inside the Gin Framework
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Gin FREE CHAPTER 3. Section 2: Distributed Microservices
4. Chapter 2: Setting Up API Endpoints 5. Chapter 3: Managing Data Persistence with MongoDB 6. Chapter 4: Building API Authentication 7. Chapter 5: Serving Static HTML in Gin 8. Chapter 6: Scaling a Gin Application 9. Section 3: Beyond the Basics
10. Chapter 7: Testing Gin HTTP Routes 11. Chapter 8: Deploying the Application on AWS 12. Chapter 9: Implementing a CI/CD Pipeline 13. Chapter 10: Capturing Gin Application Metrics 14. Assessments 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Implementing HTTP routes

In this section, we will create function handlers to handle POST, GET, PUT, and DELETE HTTP requests. So, let's jump right into it.

POST /recipes

First, let's implement the endpoint responsible for creating a new recipe. Create a POST method on the /recipes resource. Then, define a NewRecipeHandler method for that path. The main.go file should look something like this:

package main
import (
   "time"
   "github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
)
type Recipe struct {
  ID           string    `json:"id"`
  Name         string    `json:"name"`
  Tags         []string  `json:"tags"`
  Ingredients  []string  `json:"ingredients"`
  Instructions...
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