Lift Cookbook

Preface

This is a collection of solutions to questions you might have while developing web applications with the Lift Web Framework.

The aim is to give a single, short answer to a specific question. When there are multiple approaches, or styles, we’ll give you one solution, but will point you at alternatives in the discussion.

Chapter 1 will get you up and running with Lift, but in other respects, this cookbook is aimed at practitioners and the questions they have asked. If this is the first time you’ve heard of Lift, you’ll want to look at:

• Simply Lift
• Torsten Uhlmann’s Instant Lift Web Applications How-to (PACKT Publishing)
• Timothy Perrett’s Lift in Action (Manning Publications)

Contributors

I’ve mined the Lift mailing list for these recipes, but I’m not the only one. Recipes have been contributed by:

• Jono Ferguson, who’s a Scala consultant based in Sydney, Australia. He can be found lurking on the Lift mailing list and occasionally helps out with Lift modules. Find him at https://twitter.com/jonoabroad and http://underscoreconsulting.com.
• Franz Bettag, who’s been an enthusiastic Scala hacker for several years now. He joined the Lift team in January 2012 and actively tweets and blogs about his newest Scala adventures. Find him at https://twitter.com/fbettag.
• Marek Żebrowski.
• Peter Robinett, who’s a web and mobile developer and a Lift committer. He can be found on the Web and on Twitter.
• Kevin Lau, who’s a founder of a few web apps with a focus in AWS cloud, iOS, and Lift. ...