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Explore how to build a complete Go web server for a URL shortener application. Learn to implement HTTP handler functions to process input, serve HTML forms, and redirect short URLs. Understand the use of interfaces in Go for handling HTTP responses, and test your local server to ensure proper URL storage and redirection behavior.

We'll cover the following...

Designing a server
The Add function
The Redirect function
Testing the program

Designing a server

We haven’t yet coded the function with which our program must be started. This is (always) the function main() as in C, C++ or Java. In it, we will start our web server, e.g., we can start a local web server on port 8080 with the command:

http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)

The web server listens for incoming requests in an infinite loop, but we must also define how this server responds to these requests. We do this by making so-called ...

1.Origin, Context and Popularity of GO

2.Basic Constructs and Elementary Data Types

3.Control Structures

4.Functions

5.Arrays and Slices

6.Maps

7.Packages

8.Structs and Methods

9.Interfaces and Reflection

10.Reading and Writing

11.Error-Handling and Testing

12.Goroutines and Channels

13.Networking, Templating and Web-Applications

14.Common Go Pitfalls and Patterns

15.Performance Advices

16.Building a Complete Application

17.Appendix

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Designing a server