assets

Assets

Magically bundle (some) assets into your Golang binaries.

Uses a combination of boring function calls and a (horrible genius) pre-processor to generate a magical binary with pre-bundled assets.

When does it work? When you use the very small and limited setup that this was tested in and designed for. When does it NOT work? When you don't live on Planet Sysrq.

Definitely don't use this when you're working with very large files - really, you shouldn't want to embed those in the first place. This means trying to embed a copy of the world's greatest film (Hackers (1995)) in your app is probably not a good idea the greatest example ever made. (see: example/)

The gist is this:

1. go get github.com/sysr-q/assets
2. go install github.com/sysr-q/assets/goappc
3. import "github.com/sysr-q/assets"
4. foo := string(assets.MustRead("templates/blah.html")) (for example)
5. goappc . (runs magical preprocessor, bundles assets, runs go build)
6. Deploy!

NOTE! goappc is still not complete - currently it will only process a single file. Not really what you want, right? I'll remedy this sometime soon.