Go Web Development Cookbook

How to do it...

In this recipe, we are going to create a file server that will serve static resources from the filesystem. Perform the following steps:

1. Create main.css inside a static/css directory, as follows:

$ mkdir static && cd static && mkdir css && cd css && touch main.css

2. Copy the following content to main.css:

body {color: #00008B}

3. Create serve-static-files.go, where we will create FileServer, which will serve resources from the static/css directory present on the filesystem for all URL patterns with /static, as follows:

package mainimport (  "fmt"  "html/template"  "log"  "net/http")const (  CONN_HOST = "localhost"  CONN_PORT = "8080")type Person struct {  Name string  Age string}func renderTemplate(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) ...