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Go Cookbook

You're reading from   Go Cookbook Build modular, readable, and testable applications in Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783286836
Length 400 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. I/O and File Systems FREE CHAPTER 2. Command-Line Tools 3. Data Conversion and Composition 4. Error Handling in Go 5. All about Databases and Storage 6. Web Clients and APIs 7. Microservices for Applications in Go 8. Testing 9. Parallelism and Concurrency 10. Distributed Systems 11. Reactive Programming and Data Streams 12. Serverless Programming 13. Performance Improvements, Tips, and Tricks

Writing a GraphQL server in Go

GraphQL is an alternative to REST, created by Facebook (http://graphql.org/). This technology allows a server to implement and publish a schema and the clients then can ask for the information they need rather than understanding and making use of various API endpoints.

For this recipe, we'll create a Graphql schema that represents a deck of playing cards. We'll expose one resource card, which can be filtered by suit and value. Alternatively, it can return all the cards in the deck if no arguments are specified.

Getting ready

Configure your environment according to these steps:

  1. Refer to the Getting ready section of the Goflow for dataflow programming recipe in this chapter.
  2. Run the...
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