Play Framework has the following best features to develop Reactive Web Applications easily:
- Open source.
- Supports DI.
- Uses Twirl (Scala) as a View Template engine.
- By default, Play Framework uses Google Guice to support the DI feature. However, we can replace it with our required framework.
- Supports the stateless HTTP REST API.
- Supports JSON extensively.
- JSON is a first-class citizen.
- Supports hot reloading to ease development and improve productivity.
- Built on Akka Toolkit.
- Supports I18N, WebSocket, Server-Side Events (SSE), HTTP Streaming, non-blocking IO, and so on.
- Supports the JBoss Netty Server.
- Built-in support for the SBT tool.
- Uses Ivy to manage a local Maven repository.
- Supports modules (or extensions). ...