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Published Aug. 15, 2025 by Selfpublished.

Let’s Go teaches you step-by-step how to create fast, secure and maintainable web applications using the fantastic programming language Go.

The idea behind this book is to help you learn by doing. Together we’ll walk through the start-to-finish build of a web application — from structuring your workspace, through to session management, authenticating users, securing your server and testing your application.

Building a complete web application in this way has several benefits. It helps put the things you’re learning into context, it demonstrates how different parts of your codebase link together, and it forces us to work through the edge cases and difficulties that come up when writing software in real-life. In essence, you’ll learn more than you would by just reading Go’s (great) documentation or standalone blog posts.

By the end of the book you’ll have the understanding — and confidence — to build your own …

Let’s Go teaches you step-by-step how to create fast, secure and maintainable web applications using the fantastic programming language Go.

The idea behind this book is to help you learn by doing. Together we’ll walk through the start-to-finish build of a web application — from structuring your workspace, through to session management, authenticating users, securing your server and testing your application.

Building a complete web application in this way has several benefits. It helps put the things you’re learning into context, it demonstrates how different parts of your codebase link together, and it forces us to work through the edge cases and difficulties that come up when writing software in real-life. In essence, you’ll learn more than you would by just reading Go’s (great) documentation or standalone blog posts.

By the end of the book you’ll have the understanding — and confidence — to build your own production-ready web applications with Go.

Although you can read this book cover-to-cover, it’s designed specifically so you can follow along with the project build yourself.

Break out your text editor, and happy coding!

— Alex

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Michael reviewed Let's Go by Alex Edwards

A great second Golang book

5 stars

This book makes for an excellent second Golang book. I read "Learning Go" as an introduction to Go, but my main goal was to use Go for my web programming needs. So for my second book, I looked around for something with a light web dev introduction with Go. And I found "Let's Go". It covers all of the basics for delivering static HTML. While it covers a lot, from templating to databases and user management, the one major omission is any use of Javascript. But that's fine with me, to be honest. Everything else is covered really well, building a small web app for pasting text snippets.

I especially enjoyed the fact that Alex Edwards chose to not go with one of the big Golang web frameworks. He's instead using mostly the Golang standard library. But he also doesn't shy away from using libraries for targeted tasks, like …

This book makes for an excellent second Golang book. I read "Learning Go" as an introduction to Go, but my main goal was to use Go for my web programming needs. So for my second book, I looked around for something with a light web dev introduction with Go. And I found "Let's Go". It covers all of the basics for delivering static HTML. While it covers a lot, from templating to databases and user management, the one major omission is any use of Javascript. But that's fine with me, to be honest. Everything else is covered really well, building a small web app for pasting text snippets.

I especially enjoyed the fact that Alex Edwards chose to not go with one of the big Golang web frameworks. He's instead using mostly the Golang standard library. But he also doesn't shy away from using libraries for targeted tasks, like HTML form parsing or session management. Another great thing was that it also showed the practical applications of all the syntax and approaches presented in "Learning Go" in a "real" project.

Overall a great book, and well worth the price.

Subjects

Go
Programming
Web Development

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