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How to Create an Authentication API with Golang

How to create an Authentication API using Go

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Requirements

You will need to have Go installed on your machine, which you can download for free over here.

Getting Started

To get started, we create a new project. Create a new file called main.go and enter the following starter code:

package main
import (
  "fmt"
  "net/http"
  "github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
)

POST and GET methods

To be able to handle GET and POST requests, we create a GetMethod and PostMethod:

Main function

We need to create a Gin router for handling all the requests:

func main() {
  router := gin.Default()
}

Following this up, we add in the GetMethod and PostMethod:

func main() {
  router :=…