Chapter 2. Using Templates for Your Web Pages

Every website has some recurring elements, for example, a navigation bar and a header. A template engine enables you to put these elements in separate files and construct the whole page out of these files. The vibe.d includes a template engine, the so-called Diet templates.

In this chapter, you will learn the following:

• Why templates are useful
• Key concepts of Diet templates: inheritance, includes, and blocks
• How to use filters and how to create your own filter
• How to change the document type
• How to insert comments in a template
• How to localize a template
• Using D code in the templates