On Saturday, 19 September 2020 at 20:17:06 UTC, aberba wrote:
Arsd cgi.d might be what you want if you want to it your way as
its more low-level interface-wise.
Eh, it depends. My lib lets you do as much or as little as you
want.
About ten years ago, I wrote a framework on top that
automatically generates javascript/json interfaces as well as
html form and output UI just given an ordinary D class. Had full
interop with PHP too... all with no UDAs since they didn't exist
yet!
I never really documented how to use it. Wrote a few examples on
the forum but nothing formal. I kinda regret that; I've *still*
never seen anyone else, anywhere, automate as much as it did.
old demo I posted in May 2011:
http://arsdnet.net/cgi-bin/apidemo/javascript
I can't find the source to that anymore but it would be something
like:
---
import arsd.web;
class CoolApi : WebApi {
enum Color { red, green, etc }
struct Person { int id; string first; string last; }
Element getABox(Color c) {
auto div = Element.make("div");
div.style.color = to!string(c);
return div;
}
int addSomeNumbers(int a, int b) { return a + b; }
Person[] getPeople(int startingId) { return [Person(...)]; }
}
mixin FancyMain!CoolApi;
---
That's it - all the html and javascript are all auto-generated.
Nowadays I'm merging all those ideas into cgi.d and actually
writing about it in my blog. There's a lot in my old
implementation I didn't like but now that D's reflection is
better than it was, I have techniques to make it even better.
My new dwidder website is the only public example of the new code
so far
https://github.com/adamdruppe/dupdates/blob/master/main.d#L157
Still a bunch more I'm slowly bringing together. D has unique
strengths for web that javascript, ruby, and python can just
*never* do and we should be pushing the edges to go as cool as we
can.
