Once we run the program, the HTTP server will start locally listening on port 8080.
Browsing http://localhost:8080 will show us the same output we saw in our previous recipe, as shown in the following screenshot:
Let's understand the changes we introduced in the main() method as part of this recipe:
- router :=mux.NewRouter(): Here we instantiated the gorilla/mux router calling the NewRouter() handler of the mux router.
- router.HandleFunc("/",renderTemplate).Methods("GET"): Here we registered the / URL pattern with the renderTemplate handler. This means renderTemplate will execute for every request with the URL pattern /.
- router.PathPrefix("/").Handler(http.StripPrefix("/static", ...
