Discussion on: The easiest way to embed static files into a binary file in your Golang app (no external dependencies)

[Fernando Guisso]

Hi, great article, I'll try to implement in my app.
2 questions:

• Do you have any best form to serve all static file automatic? because a have this one

static/css/*.css
static/image/*.png
static/js/*js

too many files to create one endpoint for each one and point the blob.

• If I have a lot of files in /static, all files is load when my app start? do you have problems with memory?

[Vic Shóstak]

Hello! 👋 Thanks for reply.

1. If you've many files to embed, you can create little helper func for its append to binary. For example, with filepath.Walk.

2. I'm not sure, but on my some huge React.js app it works perfectly, as usual. But, some benchmarks it's better... 🤔

[Fernando Guisso]

my solution:

for filename, content := range static.Map() {                               
         r.HandleFunc(fmt.Sprintf("/static%v", filename),                        
             func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {                      
                 http.ServeContent(w, r, "test.txt", time.Now(),                 
                 bytes.NewReader(content))                                                                  
         })                                                                                                 
}

static is my box pkg and the .Map just return the storages map

The problem now is because I use the html/template to generate some pages, and I can't use the funcs of this pkg :(