On: Web.go – Web applications with Go

[deckiedan]

Don't you also have a load of static content (js, css, etc), templates, and configuration files to upload / sync as well?

But yes, it does sound a bit easier.

[Octplane → deckiedan]

With some clever compilation stuff, you can also pack most static assets directly in your application (see https://github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata ). This gets even more magic...

[philips → deckiedan]

We use go-bindata on etcd to build the frontend components of the dashboard into the binary:

https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/0.2/mod/dashboard/resour... https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/0.2/mod/dashboard/build https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/0.2/mod/dashboard/dashbo...