I’m a beginner programmer with my first language being JavaScript. Most of my experience has been in frontend development with React and Vue, but I’ve also worked with Node.js in the past for backend stuff.
Recently, I decided to learn Golang because I want to shift my focus and become a backend engineer. I’ve been going through “Go By Example,” so I have a basic understanding of the syntax and concepts, but now I’m feeling pretty frustrated because I don’t know how to take the next steps.
For those who’ve been in my shoes, what resources, tutorials, or project ideas helped you break through these roadblocks? Any advice on structuring Go projects or connecting to databases would be greatly appreciated!
The first step is to try to write a web service independently using Golang’s standard library, which is a very valuable route for beginners, which involves knowledge of networking, serialization, databases, etc., through which you can transition to Golang’s newbie period.
Note that I’m mainly talking about the standard library, so it would be better to learn gorm directly in addition to the database. net/http is a classic standard library that is well worth learning and using. (Personally, it is not recommended for newbies to learn a framework similar to GIN directly)
As for tutorials, I don’t think there’s a better way to do that than to explore and learn spontaneously. (As you said, you already know the basic syntax, so you should write something.) ）