Introduction to Play Framework Course

Course Summary

The Introduction to Play Framework training course is designed to demonstrate how to build web applications with the Play framework.

The course beings with a quick review of key language constructs and web application development concepts leveraged by Play, including things like the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern, convention over configuration, etc. Next, it discusses the Play architecture, key components, and walks students through the creation of a simple application. The course concludes with a discussion on how to move to production.

Purpose

Learn how to quickly build web applications in Scala using the Play framework.

Audience

Scala developers looking to build web applications with the Play framework.

Role

Software Developer - Web Developer

Skill Level

Intermediate

Style

Hack-a-thon - Learning Spikes - Workshops

Duration

3 Days

Related Technologies

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Productivity Objectives:

Describe the key architectural components of the Play framework
Install and configure Play
Build a simple Hello World application using Play
Create a "full-featured" Play-based application including database interactions and templating

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Project-focused demos and labs using your tool stack and environment, not some canned "training room" lab.
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What You'll Learn

In the Introduction to Play Framework training course, you'll learn:

Play Framework Basics
- What is Play?
- History of Play
- Requirements to use Play
- Understand the Play community
Introduction to Play
- Key advantages of Play over other frameworks
- A quick look at the Play architecture
- Install Play and configuring your IDE
- Launch a website in under 5 seconds
- Work with the Play console
- Folder Layout of Play
- Create Public Assets
Starting with Play Development
- Action & Controllers
- Rendering and Redirecting
- Routers
- Scopes
- Play Ingredients
  - Iteratees
  - Enumerators
  - Enumeratees
Templating
- Templating Syntax
Databases
- Standard SQL handling with Anorm
- Standard SQL handling with Slick
- No SQL handling
- Evolve Databases
Forms
- Creating forms
- Tying form to the controllers
- Validation
- Creating and reusing custom fields
- File Upload
Caching and Application Global Objects
- Cache API
- Global Application settings
- Define global settings for your application
- Participating in application life cycles
- Defining an application error page
- Handling other errors Application Global Objects
- Interception
Web Services
- Router Content Negotiation
- JSON Handling in Java and Scala
- JSON Combinators
- JSON Transformers
- Processing XML
- Web Service Handling with WS API
- Open Authorization Standards
Ajax and Visual Candy
- CoffeeScript
- LESS CSS
- Require JS
- Web Sockets
Akka Integration
- Set up Actors in an Akka environment
Testing Play
- Testing Java with JUnit
- Introduction to Specs2
- Testing Templates, Controllers, and Routers
- Testing with Selenium
Moving to Production