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You can use go’s builtin build features and embed the results into a http.FS.

  go generate npm build
  go build

And declaring the resulting frontend build as an embed.FS using

  //go:embed dist/
  var frontend *embed.FS

And use that in a http.FS

https://blog.logrocket.com/using-go-generate-reduce-boilerpl...

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You can also use `go generate` to create all the .html routes/handlers at compile. Not that it would matter much in a small app.

Yeah this is what I do to. The OP's approach is interesting but I think that using typescript/javascript/whatever to build your app, then "render" using a build step (like `vite build` or whatever) and embedding the resulting static bundles is the best of both worlds.

That said, the JS ecosystem is so weird that I totally understand the urge to bail entirely and do things in Go. But JS/TS and all the related frameworks really are decent if you pick a reasonable subset of them.

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