Practical Golang: Using Google Drive and Calendar

Introduction Integrating Google services into your app can lead to a lot of nice features for your users, and can create a seamless experience for them. In this tutorial we’ll learn how to use the most useful functionalities of Google Calendar and Google Drive. The theory To begin with, we should understand the methodology of using the Google API in Golang. For most of their API’s I’ve skimmed through it works like that:...

March 8, 2016 · 10 min · Jacob Martin

Practical Golang: Using websockets

Introduction This is the first post in the practical Golang series. Posts in it are meant to provide short and informative introductions to various topics. This one is a about websockets, which are an awesome and easy way to provide communication between your web app and server. Here we will use the gorilla websocket library, but you could also use a few others. We will create two basic apps which should cover most day to day usage:...

March 7, 2016 · 5 min · Jacob Martin