vibe.d: is it possible to use bare HTML with the functionalty of DIET templates ?

[bauss]

On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 at 00:09:14 UTC, someone wrote:
> Regarding vibe.d I think I'll give it a try (maybe placing it 
> behind nginx at first) since I do really got a good 
> first-impression ... kudos to the developers/maintainers :)
>
> I like the idea of having D at my disposal within a web page, 
> actually, it is a terrific feature to say the least.
>
> What I do not like (even a bit) are the pseudo-HTML DIET 
> templates. I can understand they can make life easy for some, 
> but I am not the guy having any trouble writing 
> well-good-structured HTML/XHTML/XML/etc to begin with, nor I am 
> the kind of guy grunting because I will be forced to write 
> closing tags and the like.
>
> That being said, my specific question is:
>
> Can I use vibe.d *without* DIET templates manually writing say, 
> XHTML 1.1 pages, *while having D* at my disposal with the - 
> prefixes I have seen so far ?
>
> I mean, I am almost sure I can write D functions returning text 
> and making my web page on-the-fly, but this is not what I have 
> in mind, I would like to have an actual text file for a web 
> page with the aforementioned - prefixes to actually hook D code 
> leveraging the pre-compiled feature of DIET templates.

You might be interested in https://yuraiweb.org/

Even though it's a work in progress then you should be able to 
get by just fine with the basics for now.