Almost any web application needs to serve static files. The serving of JavaScript files, static HTML pages, or CSS style sheets could be easily achieved with the use of the standard library. This recipe will show how.
Serving static files
How to do it...
- Open the console and create the folder chapter09/recipe07.
- Navigate to the directory.
- Create the file welcome.txt with the following content:
Hi, Go is awesome!
- Create the folder html, navigate to it and create the file page.html with the following content:
<html>
<body>
Hi, I'm HTML body for index.html!
</body>
</html>
- Create the static.go file with the following content:
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