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Embed Resources in Go

The go:embed feature was introduce in Go 1.16. It lets you embed resources into the compiled application. Prior to version 1.16, developers uses external tooling to do this. With go:embed you can embed images, webpages, email templates, predefined SQL statements or an entire directory. That’s neat! Usage Examples Embedding a text file in a string //go:embed version.txt var version string Embedding a binary file //go:embed product-catalog.pdf var catalog []byte Embedding a directory filesystem //go:embed template/* var templateFS fs....

December 18, 2022