Tutorials on Chi

An important chore that gets neglected by developers is writing documentation for their RESTful APIs. Often, this task ends up being assigned lower priority than other tasks, such as building a new feature or modifying an existing feature. Although it delivers no immediate tangible value to end…

Accessing an e-mail account anywhere in the world on any device requires authenticating yourself to prove the data associated with the account (e.g., e-mail address and inbox messages) actually belongs to you. Often, you must fill out a login form with credentials, such as an e-mail address and…

The amount of time and effort a developer dedicates towards writing a function depends on the details they choose to focus on: coding conventions, structure, programming style, etc. Suppose a group of developers is presented a high-level prompt to write the same function: given some input, return…

Disclaimer - If you are unfamiliar with writing a simple unit test for a route handler of a Go and chi RESTful API, then please read this blog post before proceeding on. Go's testing library package provides many utilities for automating the testing of Go code. To write robust tests for Go code,…

The Go programming language is designed to address the types of software infrastructure issues Google faced back in late 2007. At this time, Google predominantly built their infrastructure using the programming languages C++, Java and Python. With a large codebase and having to adapt to rapid…

Testing plays a fundamental role in the development of quality software. Shipping and deploying software with undetected bugs and regressions opens up a can of terrible consequences such as losing the trust of end users or costing the business time and resources. In a large collaborative setting,…