GoREST-Tutorial

REST micro-service concepts using the Go language.

Use this tutorial to quickly sharpen Go skills in REST

An outline for a Go REST tutorial:

1. Introduction
   • The goals of this tutorial
   • Why Go?
   • Why micro-services?
   • Go minimum essentials
2. Setup your environment
   • A git client
   • Go compiler and tools
   • Atom editor and the API Workbench
   • NodeJS with raml2html and RAML Markdown theme
   • REST testing tools
3. Concepts
   • JSON concepts
   • CGI concepts
   • REST concepts
4. Designing our first REST API
   • Taking a top-down approach with RAML
   • Using JSON schemas in RAML
   • Publishing your API
5. Assembling our first REST API
   • The anatomy of a Go REST micro-service
   • Write boiler-plate Go code using RAML
   • Using JSON schemas in Go
6. Adding some data
   • Data Elements
   • Methods
   • Integrating data into the handlers
7. Unit Testing
   • Go test
   • Code coverage