Comment by mholt
5 years ago
That's actually a pretty interesting idea. I wonder if we could make a lite version of Caddy bundled with your website embedded...no need to mess with file systems or permissions or devices and folders to run a static site. Might need some massaging to become a truly pleasant workflow though.
The go std library offers the embed package. You can just embed your files and use the std lib's webserver and generate a single file binary. No need for Caddy.
All this would be roughly 15 lines of code.
People use Caddy for automatic HTTPS, which the std lib does not give you.
Obviously you don't need to know this but others might not be aware that certmagic is a great middle ground between Caddy and rolling your own ACME.
Yeah - I could see it being part of xcaddy tooling to package up the static assets in the binary :)