On 2017-08-25 07:25, Hasen Judy wrote:
What libraries are people using to run webservers other than vibe.d?
Don't get me wrong I like the async-io aspect of vibe.d but I don't like
the weird template language and the fact that it caters to mongo crowd.
I think for D to a have good web story it needs to appeal to serious
backend developers, not hipsters who go after fads (mongodb is a fad,
jade/haml is a fad).
Why would a backend developer care about front end stuff like jade/haml?
Just don't use those parts ;)
I probably need to combine several libraries, but the features I'm
looking for are:
- Spawn an HTTP server listening on a port, and routing requests to
functions/delegates, without hiding the details of the http
request/response objects (headers, cookies, etc).
- Support for websockets
- Runs delegates in fibers/coroutines
- Basic database connectivity (No "orm" needed; just raw sql).
It depends on which database you need to connect to. For PostgreSQL
there's ddb [1] and for MySQL there's mysql-native [2].
- When iterating the result set of a sql query, has the ability to
automatically map each row against a struct, and throw if the structure
does not match.
I don't know about mysql-native, but for ddb you can use the PGCommand
class and the executeQuery or executeRow to execute the query and
specify the struct that should be returned.
- More generally, map any arbitrary object (such as json) to a struct.
Something like Zewo/Reflection package for swift[0].
vibe.d has built-in support for serialization [3].
[0]: https://github.com/Zewo/Reflection
I feel like Vibe.d satisfies my first 3 requirements, but for the rest I
will probably have to look for something else.
[1] http://code.dlang.org/packages/ddb
[2] http://code.dlang.org/packages/mysql-native
[3] http://vibed.org/api/vibe.data.serialization
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/Jacob Carlborg