I am just starting out with Go and am trying to learn how to build a simple web app without using 3rd party libraries / packages.

Using this post and this code as a guideline, I've hacked the following together:

package main

import (
    "bytes"
    "net/http"
    "os"
    "path"
    "time"
)

type StaticFS map[string]*staticFile

type staticFile struct {
    name string
    data []byte
    fs   StaticFS
}

func LoadAsset(name string, data string, fs StaticFS) *staticFile {
    return &staticFile{name: name,
        data: []byte(data),
        fs:   fs}
}

func (fs StaticFS) prepare(name string) (*staticFile, error) {
    f, present := fs[path.Clean(name)]
    if !present {
        return nil, os.ErrNotExist
    }
    return f, nil
}

func (fs StaticFS) Open(name string) (http.File, error) {
    f, err := fs.prepare(name)
    if err != nil {
        return nil, err
    }
    return f.File()
}

func (f *staticFile) File() (http.File, error) {
    type httpFile struct {
        *bytes.Reader
        *staticFile
    }
    return &httpFile{
        Reader:     bytes.NewReader(f.data),
        staticFile: f,
    }, nil
}

//implement the rest of os.FileInfo
func (f *staticFile) Close() error {
    return nil
}

func (f *staticFile) Stat() (os.FileInfo, error) {
    return f, nil
}

func (f *staticFile) Readdir(count int) ([]os.FileInfo, error) {
    return nil, nil
}

func (f *staticFile) Name() string {
    return f.name
}

func (f *staticFile) Size() int64 {
    return int64(len(f.data))
}

func (f *staticFile) Mode() os.FileMode {
    return 0
}

func (f *staticFile) ModTime() time.Time {
    return time.Time{}
}

func (f *staticFile) IsDir() bool {
    return false
}

func (f *staticFile) Sys() interface{} {
    return f
}

func main() {

    const HTML = `<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<main>
<p>Hello World</p>
</main>
</body>
</html>
`

    const CSS = `
p {
    color:red;
    text-align:center;
} 
`
    ASSETS := make(StaticFS)
    ASSETS["index.html"] = LoadAsset("index.html", HTML, ASSETS)
    ASSETS["style.css"] = LoadAsset("style.css", CSS, ASSETS)
    http.Handle("/", http.FileServer(ASSETS))
    http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)
}

Which compiles fine, but doesn't actually produce any results other than 404 page not found..

What I want to achieve is having a package in my app that allows me to make a map, embed some static content such as css and js in it and then serve it with http.Handle - Without using 3rd party tools like go-bindata, rice or anything else.

Any help would be greatly appreciated..