Example of how to compile a static website into a go package that can be bundled with the compiled binary. Based on:

• https://github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata
• https://github.com/elazarl/go-bindata-assetfs

Once you go get elazarl/go-bindata-assetfs, run go-bindata-assetfs static/... to build a package called bindata_assefs.go. This will convert all the files and assets in the static directory into a go package and give a nice interface to working with them. The assets and files are compressed and stored as a data structure in the package.

For development, use go-bindata-assetfs -debug static/... to serve the files directly, so that you don't have to compile them each time.

Then, you can build or run it and mount the package as a file handler using net/http, like this:

package main

import (
	"net/http"
  "fmt"
)

func main() {
   http.Handle("/", http.FileServer(assetFS()))
   fmt.Println("Serving on port 8000")
   http.ListenAndServe(":8000", nil)
}

Here's an example makefile of how you can do all this automatically:

run: build
	./main

build:
	go-bindata-assetfs static/...
	go build -o main *.go