ANanderspitman·Jan 17, 2021
How does statik compare to rice, which is what I had assumed everyone was using: https://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice
In REST Servers in Go: Part 1 – standard libraryGeertJohan
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go.rice
go.rice is a Go package that makes working with resources such as html,js,css,images,templates, etc very easy.
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go.rice is a Go package that makes working with resources such as html,js,css,images,templates, etc very easy.
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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9 sourcesBeing able to include arbitrary data inside a static binary is definitely a nice side-effect of rust and golang being able to produce static binaries.
If you're interested in stuff like this for go, I've used https://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice with great success.
[EDIT]
"feature" -> "side effect"
"rust and golang" -> "rust and golang being able to produce static binaries"
In Making a Statically-Linked, Single-File Web App with React and RustTangentially related, but I've used https://github.com/mjibson/esc before and liked it. I found it was a bit simpler than https://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice.
In Making a Statically-Linked, Single-File Web App with React and Rust1) The first example in the blog post shows an inline template:
t, err := template.New("todos").Parse("You have a task named \"{{ .Name}}\" with description: \"{{ .Description}}\"")
If you have a lot of templates and don't want to declare them in-line but also want to ship just an executable, you could use a project like https://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice which allows you to pack multiple files into a go executable and then reference them like files.
2) I'm not very familiar with the project but gogs https://github.com/gogits/gogs/tree/master/templates has a lot
3) Hard to comment without seeing an approach
4) Agree
5) Generally templates should be parsed at start time, not re-parsed for every request. I'm not sure if I'm responding to what you are saying. Do you have link to some code you would like comments on?
In Using Go Templateshttps://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice/
lets you bundle resources into the executable. It's not part of the language but I don't think Python's is either (?)
In What will be the legacy of Go?Not to forget - https://github.com/rakyll/statik and https://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice among many others
In Cross compilation just got better in Go 1.5It is possible to pack static assets directly inside go binaries using statik[0] or rice[2]. I've been using then for small webapps and they both work very well.
[0] https://github.com/rakyll/statik
[1] https://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice
In Gogs: a self-hosted Git Service written in GoThere are some 3rd party build tools to help with that. Below are a couple I found.
https://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice
https://github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata
EDIT: to add, the Go team is looking to add a generate command in go1.4 to help with this. See: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/golang-dev/ZTD1qtp...
In Gogs: a self-hosted Git Service written in Gogo.rice (https://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice) does things like this.
In Gogs: a self-hosted Git Service written in Go