February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
13h 46m
English
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Extending Applications with Play
In this chapter, we will discuss what Play Framework is and how to develop Reactive Web Applications using Scala, Akka, and Play Framework.
In this book, we will use the latest version of Play Framework, 2.6.11, which was released in July 2017. It requires a minimum of JDK 1.8, SBT 0.13.15, and Scala 2.11.x or 2.12.x.
Play is a very flexible framework such that it does not force developers to use a predefined flow/components/approach. We can use the best suitable approach to develop our applications.
Its official website is https://www.playframework.com/ and you can find its source code on GitHub at https://github.com/playframework/playframework.
In this chapter, we will learn the following concepts:
- What ...