It goes without saying that we'll implement our microservices using the Lagom framework. Lagom supports both Maven and SBT as build tools but SBT provides a much better user experience so we will ignore Maven as it is less relevant for Scala projects.
Further, in this section we're going to create a Lagom project from scratch. We could utilize a slightly different approach by creating an example project with Giter8 and then modifying and extending it as needed. The command is similar to the one we mentioned in Chapter 11, An Introduction to the Akka and Actor Models: sbt new lagom/lagom-scala.g8.
As before, our SBT setup will contain a number of files describing different aspects of the project. For the following, assume we've ...
