Welsh Noel, Gurnell Dave. Essential Play

Undescore, 2015. — 133 p.OverviewThis course covers a comprehensive set of topics required to create web sites and web services in Play.Use Play’s Twirl templating language to populate web pages with dynamic content. Build HTML5 content using your choice of JavaScript, Coffeescript, Less, and/or CSS. Integrate client and server with AJAX and JSON. Write functional tests using Fluentlenium.Write fast, non-blocking asynchronous code using futures and promises. Efficiently process and validate JSON data. Integrate with third party web services using Play’s WS client API. Build your APIs using clean, testable development practices.
PrerequisitesTo benefit from this course you will need to know the fundamentals of the Scala language. We recommend Underscore’s Essential Scala as the perfect complement to this course.
Learning OutcomesUnderstand Play routing, controllers, and actions
Confidently write HTML and text page templates using Twirl templates
Deploy significant JavaScript, Coffeescript, Less CSS, and CSS codebases using the Play build system
Use JSON AJAX to communicate between browser and server
Know how to write functional web tests using FluentleniumThe Basics
Actions, Controllers, and Routes
Routes in Depth
Parsing Requests
Constructing Results
Handling Failure
HTML and Forms
Twirl Templates
Form Handling
Generating Form HTML
Working with JSON
Modelling JSON
Writing JSON
Reading JSON
JSON Formats
Custom Formats
Handling Failure
Async and Concurrency
Futures
Thread Pools and ExecutionContexts
Asynchronous Actions
Calling Remote Web Services
Handling Failure