Embedstatic-go

About

Embedstatic-go is a nodejs script that lets you embed static files into go source code by creating a source code file containing a map (string -> []byte). This lets you create a web server that compiles into a single binary.
One or several directories can be added and it can be easily added as a build step using npm and node js. Since it is common to use npm and webpack for building the frontend, this package will be a better fit into the existing front end build pipeline than corresponding implementations written in go.
Checkout the example in the example directory

Installation

using npm

npm install git+https://github.com/alphapeter/embedstatic-go.git

This will install the command embedstatic into the node bin directory. If you don't use the -g (global flag) when installing, the command will only be available from npm or npx.

Running the command

The command takes three arguments,
embedstatic source files/directories go-package-name output-file-name

Configuration

A better way of automating the build process is using npm and create a script that runs 'embedstatic'. This allows for defining the configuration using a npm configuration object embedstatic-go.

package.json example

{
  "name": "example-buildscript",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "dependencies": {
    "embedstatic-go": "git+https://github.com/alphapeter/embedstatic-go.git"
  },
  "embedstatic-go": {
    "files": "index.html,static",
    "package": "main",
    "output": "data.go"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "embed": "embedstatic"
  }
}

Then the embedding can be triggered by running npm run embed
The parameters are configured by creating the embedstatic-go object in package.json.

• files: a comma separated list of files and folders to be embedded (no white spaces)
• package: the package name for the output go source file
• output: the file name for the go source file