Embedding static resources in Go binaries
Tsvetan Dimitrov
Agenda
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Why?
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Introducing Statik
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Integration
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Local Development
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Dockerfile integration
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CircleCI integration
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Why? / 1
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No moving parts (everything is self contained)
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No reference of file paths when trying to read or write
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Adheres to Go philosophy of a self contained deliverable
Why? / 2
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Can serve static content via a web server directly from the binary, e.g. JS, HTML, CSS, images, etc.
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Go Proposal
Introducing Statik
Statik
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Tool allowing embedding of a directory of static content in your binary
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Could be served later from a http.FileSystem or just reference it as pure Go code
How to do it?
1. Generate a Go package with serialized content
2. Add a blank import of the generated package to, e.g. main.go
3. Load content by file name to read or serve
DEMO
Integration
DEMO
References
Questions?
Embedding static resources in Go binaries
By Tsvetan Dimitrov
Embedding static resources in Go binaries
Introduction on ways to embed static resources in Go binaries and why that is beneficial
