With some clever compilation stuff, you can also pack most static assets directly in your application (see https://github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata ). This gets even more magic...

We use go-bindata on etcd to build the frontend components of the dashboard into the binary:

https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/0.2/mod/dashboard/resour... https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/0.2/mod/dashboard/build https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/0.2/mod/dashboard/dashbo...