HTTP Servers

Part of the Go course

In most languages, "write a web service" begins with choosing a framework, and the choice matters, because the framework decides how routing works, what a handler looks like, and how you compose behaviour. In Go it mostly does not. The standard library's net/http ships a server that runs in production at large companies, and the frameworks that exist are thin conveniences over the same interfaces rather than...

That is worth knowing up front, because it changes what you are learning. The pieces in this lesson are not one library's opinion. They are the shared vocabulary that every Go HTTP library builds on, so learning them once means you can read any Go web code. ...