From Go 1.16, Go officially supports embedded files by using the embed package. Please use the embed package instead assets-life. assets-life is no longer maintained.
assets-life is a very simple embedding asset generator. It generates an embed small in-memory file system that is served from an http.FileSystem.
Install the command line tool first.
go install github.com/shogo82148/assets-life@latest
The assets-life command generates a package that have embed small in-memory file system.
assets-life /path/to/your/project/public public
You can access the file system by accessing a public variable Root of the generated package.
import (
"net/http"
"./public" // TODO: Replace with the absolute import path
)
func main() {
http.Handle("/", http.FileServer(public.Root))
http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)
}Visit http://localhost:8080/path/to/file to see your file.
The assets-life command also embed go:generate directive into the generated code, and assets-life itself.
It allows you to re-generate the package using go generate.
go generate ./public
The assets-life command is implemented as a Quine (computing) and embedded into the generated package. So the command is no longer needed.