Comment by mholt

These are fun to make. I've done it several times. :) That is why I wrote Caddy:

    $ caddy file-server

It does templates, TLS, and other production things really easily from the command line too, including automatically getting certificates:

    $ caddy file-server --domain example.com

Done!

I think projects like static-server are wonderful learning examples of how to get Useful Things done in Go.