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D Web Development

D Web Development

By : Kai Nacke
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D Web Development

D Web Development

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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.
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Integrating with other GUI toolkits


There are numerous other GUI toolkits available. The prominent examples are GTK+ and KDE. The new Wayland server is intended as a replacement for the X server. The approach to integrate these toolkits is always the same: you need to find a way to process the GUI toolkit events with the vibe.d event manager. As vibe.d utilizes the widely used libevent library, you may get lucky and somebody may have already provided a solution. Alternatively, you can look for a libev solution. To use libev with vibe.d, you need to specify the libev configuration in your dub.sdl file:

subConfigurations  "vibe-d" "libev" 

In case you have to roll your own implementation, you should take a look at libasync. This event loop library is written in D and the source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/etcimon/libasync. You can clone this repository and use it as a base for your integration task.

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Don't forget to create a pull request with your solution in order to make...

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