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digitalmars.D.announce - Diamond Full-stack MVC / Template Engine - v2.7.0 Released!

reply bauss <jj_1337 live.dk> writes:
I finally got around and fixed the last corners here and there.

If you wonder what Diamond is, then it's a library for developing 
full-stack MVC web-applications based on vibe.d.

It contains a lot of features (Which you can see in the READ ME)

To name a few of the key features:

* Full control over requests / responses when wanted.
* "Websettings" file that lets you control requests / responses 
for:
   * Before a request is handled.
   * After a request has been handled.
   * When an error occurres.
   * When a page or controller action wasn't found.
   * When a static file has been requested.
* Multiple static file paths
* Let's you bind to multiple ip addresses and ports.
* Let's you control default headers for each type of request 
(default, static files, errors, not found etc.)
* Uses vibe.d for backend, so it's very powerful and all vibe.d 
features can be used with Diamond
* Easy control over the application's type using *static if* 
constructs.
   * isWeb (true for both web-servers and web-apis.)
   * isWebServer (true for web-servers)
   * isWebApi (true for web-apis)
   * isWeb, isWebServer and isWebApi will be false for standalone.
* ACL & Authentication tied to it
* Separate authentication that can be used either with or without 
the ACL
* CSRF Protection
* Easy integrated cookie/session API.
* The network can be restricted to specific ips.
* Transactions
* Unittesting
* Logging
* i18n
* Version-control
* Route rewriting
* Database Integration & Object Relational Mapping
* Websockets
* Specialized Routes (Can fetch resources external internal or 
local)
* Views are parsed at compile-time, thus rendering of views are 
super fast
* Views can have layout views
* Views have a metadata section that lets you change view 
configurations such as its controller, model, layout, route and 
placeholders.
* Views have placeholders and layout view's can access the render 
view's placeholders.
* Views can encode their data
* Has a rich syntax that allows for complex and innovative 
rendering.
* Easy access to the current request / response using the 
properties: *httpRequest* and *httpResponse*
* Can render other views within itself
* Any type of D code can be written within views.
* Allows for sections, which is useful to only render a part of 
the view. (Very useful for responsive designs)
* Can be passed to controllers by their base view
* Layout views can be changed dynamically
* Expensive views can be cached.
* Flash-messages
* Controller actions are mapped through attributes. (By default 
the route name will be the name of the function.)
   * If wanted actions can be mapped manually, but that's a legacy 
feature.
* Controller actions can easily control how the response is 
handled, as they require a status returned
   * Status.success (Will continue to handle the request.)
   * Status.end (Will end the request; useful for json responses 
etc. *Note: using the json() function already does it for you.)*
   * Status.notFound (Will issue a 404 status for the response.)
* Can map mandatory actions that are executed on every requests. 
(Useful for authentication etc.)
* Easy integrated authentication (Can be combined with ACL)
* RESTful
* Specific actions can be restricted to specific ips.

After 2.7.0 I have decided to drop backward compatibility as 
2.7.0 barely introduces any major breaking changes, but it fixes 
a lot of issues and now works with vibe.d 0.8.2 and mysql-native 
2.1.0!!

Since last announced update the following has been added:

* i18n messages can now be added dynamically.
* Support for mysql-native 2.1.0
* Support for vibe.d 0.8.2
* Removed backward compatibility with older vibe.d versions
* Slowly moving away from shared static constructors. (Currently 
Diamond implements a main function for a start.)
* Better internal usage of placeholders (They now append to the 
view's content, instead of using std.array.replace.)
* Removed the rootPath property from the View class, because it 
was expensive and kind of useless.
* You can now retrieve placeholder values from views
* Route creation was made public
* Added new view functionality such as the ability to delay view 
render for layouts etc.
* Added the ability to use a single view for routing
* Added a view constructor extension type

Other than that minor optimizations and bug fixes has also taken 
place.

Github: https://github.com/DiamondMVC/Diamond
Dub: https://code.dlang.org/packages/diamond (Currently waiting 
for dub to update the package!)

In the last announcement for Diamond I said I'd implement a SEO 
API and SOAP support and it's still planned, but it wasn't 
prioritized like updating to vibe.d 0.8.2 and mysql-native 2.1.0

I still plan to implement it within the near future!

I think Diamond has reached a stable phase, which means I can 
focus on adding tutorials, examples etc.

I also need to pick up working on the official Diamond website, 
but I have a lot of actual paid work that I can't just put away 
at the moment, so my time working on actual Diamond is limited 
right now.

I'd like to give a special thanks to everyone who contributes to 
D, vibe.d and mysql-native, because without them Diamond wouldn't 
be where it's at!

Anyway,

Thank you for your time!
Mar 07 2018
next sibling parent Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
And api documentation for the new version!

http://diamond.dpldocs.info/v2.7.0/index.html
Mar 07 2018
prev sibling parent reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 at 22:37:36 UTC, bauss wrote:

 I finally got around and fixed the last corners here and there.

 If you wonder what Diamond is, then it's a library for 
 developing full-stack MVC web-applications based on vibe.d.

 It contains a lot of features (Which you can see in the READ ME)


And you can read more about the project in the Project Highlight 
bauss did on the D Blog a while back:

https://dlang.org/blog/2017/11/20/project-highlight-diamond-mvc-framework/
Mar 07 2018
parent bauss <jj_1337 live.dk> writes:
On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 at 22:51:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 And api documentation for the new version!

 http://diamond.dpldocs.info/v2.7.0/index.html


Thanks for updating it!

On Thursday, 8 March 2018 at 01:38:55 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 at 22:37:36 UTC, bauss wrote:

 I finally got around and fixed the last corners here and there.

 If you wonder what Diamond is, then it's a library for 
 developing full-stack MVC web-applications based on vibe.d.

 It contains a lot of features (Which you can see in the READ 
 ME)


 And you can read more about the project in the Project 
 Highlight bauss did on the D Blog a while back:

 https://dlang.org/blog/2017/11/20/project-highlight-diamond-mvc-framework/


Yes! Thanks a lot for the recognition!
Mar 08 2018