D For A Web Developer

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 03:09:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 02:43:43 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
> wrote:
>> All I'm saying is, if you ever not want to write ajax code 
>> again, Cmsed is your friend [1].
>
> My web.d does some javascript generation too.
>
> D:
> import arsd.web;
> class Foo : ApiProvider {
>    export int add(int a, int b) { return a+b; }
> }
> mixin FancyMain!Foo;
>
> Javascript:
>
> Foo.add(1, 2).get(alert); // calls alert(3) when it returns
>
> The generated JS code creates an object with the same name as 
> the D class with all the export functions as methods that 
> return a proxy object, setting the arguments. You can then 
> modify it and eventually fire off the request with methods like 
> get, getSync, and getHtml which take a function to call with 
> the result.
>
> Just one of the many things I miss when doing RoR instead of D 
> :(

We should probably work together on this sort of stuff! As we 
seem to have similar ideas