vibed: how to use pure HTML instead of template engine?

[Chris via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 7 May 2015 at 19:51:20 UTC, yawniek wrote:
>
> On Thursday, 7 May 2015 at 18:59:13 UTC, Suliman wrote:
>> 1. Do I need write "./public/" ? In examples often simply 
>> "public/"
> will work too. even "public"
> it goes trough Path struct, see:
> https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/blob/11578aa956a9b3b0e305d655f9668a867fdd89bd/source/vibe/inet/path.d
>
>
>> 2. What incoming parameters ("HTTPServerRequest req, 
>> HTTPServerResponse res") mean? Why I should to specify them?
>
> HTTPServerRequest contains all data that the client sends, e.g.
> headers, cookies, source ip etc.
> see:
> https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/blob/11578aa956a9b3b0e305d655f9668a867fdd89bd/source/vibe/http/server.d#L584
>
> HTTPServerResponse is the response you send back.
> https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/blob/11578aa956a9b3b0e305d655f9668a867fdd89bd/source/vibe/http/server.d#L788
>
> you woud want to set at least its body, as you do below
>
>> 3. Why code with: "res.writeBody("Hello, World!", 
>> "text/plain");"
>> and "router.get("*", serveStaticFiles("./public/"));" also 
>> work, but my variant (see code above) do not load say that 
>> page not found?
>
> what exactely does not work? please link code (ideally 
> https://gist.github.com/ )
>
>> 4. How to specify page that I need to load, why in examples 
>> there is only link to folder like public? But what if I want 
>> to load public/foo.html?
>
> public servers public files, its more or less a static 
> webserver which checks if a file exists and then serves that.
>
> if you want to dynamically modify content you send you need to 
> use the templating or do your own string magic.
>
>
> generally it seems you do not fully understand the concept of 
> how these web frameworks work. i think you should either read 
> vibe.d's source code or more read how other such frameworks 
> work e.g. http://www.sinatrarb.com/documentation.html has 
> pretty good documentations and books that explain the inner 
> workings (but mind, ruby is a dynamically typed language).
>
> then i also can recommend that you check out vibe.d's github 
> repositories and read trough all the example projects that come 
> with it. e.g.
> https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/tree/11578aa956a9b3b0e305d655f9668a867fdd89bd/examples/app_skeleton

I'd say it is a bit hard to get into vibe.d just like that. I had 
to work out a lot of things myself simply because it's web server 
technology cast in D. Most of the difficulties are not D but 
understanding the whole web server thing. But I have to say 
vibe.d is very very good once you know your way around. Maybe we 
should set up some tutorials with common tasks so developers can 
concentrate on D instead of the web.