🚀 Go Journey – Day 1: Building my first RESTful API with Gin

Last week, I officially started learning how to build RESTful APIs in Go.
To keep things simple, I focused on the fundamentals before jumping into larger projects. My first API can:
✅ Retrieve all albums (GET /albums)
✅ Add a new album (POST /albums)
✅ Retrieve a specific album by its ID (GET /albums/:id)
Along the way, I learned what some of Gin's core features actually do instead of just copying code from tutorials.
A few concepts that finally clicked for me:
🔹 gin.Context
Carries information about the incoming HTTP request.
Helps read request data, validate input, and send responses back to the client.
🔹 Context.IndentedJSON()
Converts Go structs into properly formatted JSON.
Sends the JSON back to the client along with the appropriate HTTP status code.
🔹 BindJSON()
Reads the JSON sent in the request body.
Maps that data directly into a Go struct, making it easy to work with user input.
One thing I'm trying to do differently this time is document everything I learn instead of rushing to the next topic. I even created a README explaining what each function in my project does, because I want to understand the "why" behind the code—not just make it work.
This is only the beginning, but every endpoint I build is helping me understand how backend systems communicate with clients.
Next up:
Input validation
Better error handling
Connecting the API to a database
Authentication
I'm looking forward to seeing how much I improve over the next few months. 🚀