在go二进制文件中包含模板/ html文件

Question

Loving Go's built-in template libraries, currently I am just declaring the template as const string. How does one normally go about including larger more sophisticated template files? Ideally I prefer them to be inside the binary to simplify deployment.

Answer 1

There is no standard way to do this in Go.

As comments show there is a few libraries available that will help you transform binary data (like templates, images eg.) to Go source files that can be compiled with your own source files to the final binary.

Although this approach works for many projects I will recommend you reconsider. The cost of having easy distribution is that you must re-generate the source files creating assets before compiling the main source code and when you want to distribute a minor change to the templates/javascript/images&eg. included this way you will have to re-compile and restart the whole server.

On most projects I've worked on changes in frontend stuff is by far the most frequent kind of change - which caused us to move away from this practice.