Writing a Simple Web Application

A web application

In the following program from line 7 to line 10, we see how the HTML, needed for our web form (which is a simple input form with text box and submit button) is stored in a multi-line string constant form.

The program starts a webserver on port 3000 at line 39. It uses a combined if statement so that, whenever an error occurs, the web server stops with a panic statement (see line 40). Before starting a webserver, we see two so-called routing statements:

• http.HandleFunc("/test1", SimpleServer) at line 37

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