This book is the result of an effort to provide you, the reader, with a very practical and concise learning tool for building full stack web applications in Go. Learning how to build full stack web applications in a powerful language such as Go can be a very valuable skill, as it allows you to write fully functional and scalable applications on your own. Go is known in the industry for both its performance and relative ease of use. This ensures that your applications can sustain growing data loads and expanding users, without suffering from scalability issues too early.

Full stack developers are the main drivers behind software startups; this is because of their ability to build products both quickly and efficiently from scratch. They are also typically the key members or the subject-matter experts (SMEs) in large corporations, as they help architect software systems, from the user interface down to the backend code. Even as an individual developer, learning full stack web programming can help you build your product ideas quickly, over a weekend or two.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• What is full stack development?
• What will we build?
• The outline of this book