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D Web Development

By : Kai Nacke
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Book Image

D Web Development

4 (1)
By: Kai Nacke

Overview of this book

D is a programming language with C-like syntax and static typing. The vibe.d framework builds on powerful D concepts like template meta-programming and compile-time function execution to provide an easy-to-use environment for web applications. The combination of a feature-rich web programming framework with a language compiling to native code solves two common issues in web development today: it accelerates your development and it results in fast, native web applications. Learning the vibe.d framework before you start your application will help you to choose the right features to reach your goal. This book guides you through all aspects of web development with D and the vibe.d framework. Covering the popular operating systems today, this guide starts with the setup of your development system. From the first Hello World-style application you will move on to building static web pages with templates. The concise treatment of web forms will give you all the details about form handling and web security. Using the abstractions of the web framework you will learn how to easily validate user input. Next, you will add database access to your application, providing persistent storage for your data. Building on this foundation, you will expose your component and integrate other components via REST. Learning about the internals of vibe.d you will be able to use low-level techniques such as raw TCP access. The vibe.d concepts can also be used for GUI clients, which is the next topic that you will learn. vibe.d is supported by an active community, which adds new functionality. This comprehensive guide concludes with an overview of the most useful vibe.d extensions and where to find them. It also shows you how to integrate these extensions in your application. The concepts are always illustrated with source code, giving you an insight into how to apply them in your application.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Index

Creating your first template

In the following example, you will create a Diet template from the HTML page using various techniques. The template syntax is concise and easy to read, which is a great advantage over using plain HTML.

Turning the HTML page into a Diet template

Let's start with a one-to-one translation of the HTML page into a Diet template. The syntax that we will use is based on Jade templates (http://jade-lang.com/), which you might already be familiar with. It looks similar to the following:

doctype html
html
  head
    meta(charset='utf-8')
    title Demo site
    link(rel='stylesheet', type='text/css', href='demo.css')
  body
    header
      | Header
    nav
      ul
        li
          a(href='link1') Link 1
        li
          a(href='link2') Link 2
        li
          a(href='link3') Link 3
    article
      h1 Title
      p Some content here.
    footer
      | Footer

The template resembles the...