Intro to Golang (Building a JSON API) - Software School (2024-08-24)

The lecture goes over how to use the Go programming language to build a backend server API that communicates using the JSON format for data.

First make sure to install Golang, as the language is also called. The lecture gives you a brief intro to Go with a hello world program.

Then it goes over how to establish an HTTP server with the net/http module. You learn how to define an endpoint with a handler function.

Later on, you learn how to define the structure for a JSON response and return that.

Throughout the lecture the instructor gives numerous insights about the Golang programming language itself and its many quirks.