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Gin Basics #7 Project Structure and a Mini REST API
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Gin Basics #7 Project Structure and a Mini REST API

Split the code accumulated in one file into layers, separate out configuration, and finish the series with a mini REST API.

Gin Basics #6 Database Integration (GORM)
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Gin Basics #6 Database Integration (GORM)

Attach GORM and build a CRUD API that handles real data. Covers everything from model definition to create, read, update, and delete.

Gin Basics #5 Middleware
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Gin Basics #5 Middleware

How to bundle common processing applied across many handlers — logging, recovery, authentication — into middleware.

Gin Basics #4 Responses — JSON, Status Codes, Errors
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Gin Basics #4 Responses — JSON, Status Codes, Errors

Covers response formats beyond JSON, how to handle status codes, and how to build consistent error responses.

Gin Basics #3 Request Binding and Validation
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Gin Basics #3 Request Binding and Validation

Binding request bodies into structs, and validating input with validator tags.

Gin Basics #2 Routing and Handlers
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Gin Basics #2 Routing and Handlers

How to read path parameters and query strings, and how to group endpoints with router groups.

React State Management in Depth #6: Which Tool, When — a Decision Guide
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React State Management in Depth #6: Which Tool, When — a Decision Guide

A single decision flow tying together the built-in tools, TanStack Query, Zustand, Jotai, and Redux Toolkit. The series wrap-up: what to reach for in which situation, and the common traps.

Build a Manual with Docusaurus #6: Maintenance — Search, Accessibility, and Documentation Culture
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Build a Manual with Docusaurus #6: Maintenance — Search, Accessibility, and Documentation Culture

The final post in the series. We'll add search properly to Docusaurus, cover the accessibility that lets everyone read your docs, and the Docs as Code culture that keeps docs alive over time, laying out the operations perspective to close out the series.

Build a Manual with MkDocs #6: Maintenance — Search, Accessibility, and Documentation Culture
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Build a Manual with MkDocs #6: Maintenance — Search, Accessibility, and Documentation Culture

The final post in the series. We'll close it out from the operations perspective: refining Material's built-in search, accessibility that lets everyone read, and the Docs as Code culture that keeps docs alive for a long time.

Build a Manual with Starlight #6: Maintenance — Search, Accessibility, Docs Culture
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Build a Manual with Starlight #6: Maintenance — Search, Accessibility, Docs Culture

The final post in the series. We touch on Starlight's built-in search, accessibility that lets everyone read the docs, and the Docs as Code culture that keeps docs alive for the long run, closing the series on the operations perspective.

Comparing Documentation Site Generators — Hugo, MkDocs, Docusaurus, Starlight: Which One to Pick
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Comparing Documentation Site Generators — Hugo, MkDocs, Docusaurus, Starlight: Which One to Pick

Once you've decided to build your team docs as a static site, the next question is which tool to build it with. We compare Hugo, MkDocs, Docusaurus, and Starlight across runtime, search, versioning, and ceiling, and lay out which to choose for which situation.

Gin Basics #1 Getting Started and Your First Server
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Gin Basics #1 Getting Started and Your First Server

From the gaps you hit with net/http alone to installing Gin and running your first HTTP server. The starting line of the Gin track.