looking for a middleware similar to webjars

[sombriks]

hello all,

on java ecosystem i can track frontend dependencies using webjars, it repackages npm dependencies as jar resource files and that way i can track all my libraries, frontend and backend, in a single project file.

i could simply hybridize the project by adding a package.json file, but that approach would force me to handle two config files and tweak the simple and easy go build process.

anyone know any library for that purpose? right now i just versioned a copy of my frontend resources and i am serving them with static middleware + //go:embed

any guidance is welcome.

[aldas]

I think //go:embed + whatever means to get your files there during the build is the answer. Java libraries are distributed as zip files but Go libraries are distributed as (raw) code that you compile with(in) your application during the build. If you do not want to add NPM to Go project you could use add this FE "versioning" part to CI build files (Github/Gitlab). I usually do this with my Gitlab Go+Angular projects. This is not super eloquent but does not force me to mix Go project with Javascript world.

[sombriks]

So, i would end up with some small Makefile or something performing a "prepare" step. That works and looks cleaner than dangling unversioned dependencies under static package.

I just imagined some middleware to proxy npm or cdn providers to make those embeds transparent, but i am thinking if it really worths the trouble.