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

[yawniek via Digitalmars-d-learn]

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