Using the template engine to build web pages
For now, your Play application only handles JSON. To create data, you must supply a JSON payload with your HTTP request, and ensure the presentation of your application resources is only JSON. This can be sufficient if you just want to provide a web service. However, you sometimes also want to expose your resources as HTML pages so that users can browse them from their web browser.
Play includes a template engine, Twirl, that makes it easier to define skeleton HTML pages filled with data from your application and combine document fragments.
The app/views/main.scala.html file contains the HTML template used by the provided controllers.Application.index action. Have a look at it in your code editor. It ...
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