About Matthew Setter
Teaching how to build and deploy web-based apps in PHP and Go
G'day. I create videos, technical tutorials, books, and courses showing how to build web-based apps in PHP and Go. I cover the ins and outs of building modern web-based applications; everything from designing, testing, building, deploying, and so much more in a fun, relaxed — and hopefully engaging — way. That might sound nerdy, but I think it's a lot of fun. If it's something that you're learning, or want to learn, I just might have the teaching style to suit you. I decided to create this page for all the very kind people who'd like to support my channel, tutorials, and podcast. If you'd like to, then you can buy me a coffee here. The money may actually end up paying for a coffee. More than likely it'll end up ploughed back into research for future tutorials, videos, books, and courses, or equipment and software to help make them better.
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Building web apps in Go is extremely rewarding. No surprise there, right?! However, as Go’s a compiled language, to see changes, you need to recompile and restart them. Needless to say that’s quite tedious! With live reloading, it doesn’t need to be . Here's a short tutorial that goes into a bit of depth, with a semi-realistic example, showing how to get started. I'd love your feedback on it...
Live Reload Go Projects with wgo is so worth it
Apr 23, 2024
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In case you missed my recent post , I recently, deployed a Go-powered app backed by an SQLite database on Fly.io for the first time. It was a fun and informative experience, so I blogged about the experience in the hope that it might help or inspire someone else. While I don't want to rehash all of the details, the essentials of the process are: Package up your app in a Docker image using a Docker...
I deployed a Go app on Fly.io. Here's what the experience was like
Mar 13, 2024
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