go-esi: A Go repository from andersjanmyr

go-esi

go-esi is the implementation of the non-standard ESI (Edge-Side-Include) specification from the w3. With that you'll be able to use the ESI tags and process them in your favorite golang servers.

What are the ESI tags

The ESI tags were introduced by Akamai to add some dynamic tags and only re-render these parts on the server-side. The goal of that is to render only specific parts. For example, we want to render a full e-commerce webpage but only the cart is user-dependent. So we could render the "static" parts and store with a predefined TTL (e.g. 60 minutes), and only the cart would be requested to render the block.

There are multiple esi tags that we can use but the most used is the esi:include because that's the one to request another resource.

We can have many esi:include tags in a single response, and each esi:include tags can itself have one or more esi:include tags.

We can have multiple esi:include tags in the page to request another resource and add its content to the main page.

References

https://www.w3.org/TR/esi-lang/

Install

go get -u github.com/darkweak/go-esi

Usage

import (
    // ...
    github.com/darkweak/go-esi/esi
)

//...

func functionToParseESITags(b []byte, r *http.Request) []byte {
    // Returns the parsed response.
    res := esi.Parse(b, r)

    //...
    return res
}

Available as middleware

Caddy
Træfik

Caddy middleware

xcaddy build --with github.com/darkweak/go-esi/middleware/caddy

Refer to the sample Caddyfile to know how to configure that.

Træfik middleware

# anywhere/traefik.yml
experimental:
  plugins:
    souin:
      moduleName: github.com/darkweak/go-esi
      version: v0.0.4

# anywhere/dynamic-configuration
http:
  routers:
    whoami:
      middlewares:
        - esi
      service: whoami
      rule: Host(`domain.com`)
  middlewares:
    esi:
      plugin:
        esi:
          # We don't care about the configuration but we have ot declare that block 
          # due to shitty træfik empty configuration handle.
          disable: false