The following technologies are used throughout this tutorial:
The best part of Play is that , it comes with activator which eliminates the need to install all the above into your local machine(except IDE) . Just installing activator can get you the you the basic web application created , up and running in just 3 steps !
Typesafe Activator is a single download to get you started building Reactive applications. Activator includes the SBT build tool.
As a first step of the tutorial, you need to download the Latest Typesafe Activator (downloading the mini-package should be sufficient ). Once you click on the download the mini-package , the download starts immediately . It takes less than one minute to download !
Extract the downloaded rar contents into a location where you have write privileges . For this tutorial I choose C drive . Now , the path to my activator is - C:\activator-1.3.5
Before running the activator command , you need to set its path else you would encounter the following error:
In case you don’t know how to set the path on windows , see here.
This completes the installation of activator on your machine and now you are all set to run the activator !!
Give the command - activator new
Activator now displays you a set of templates to choose. For this tutorial we need to select play-scala template , so type 6 and hit enter.
Congrats your first Play-Scala application is created !!
Give the command - activator run.
That’s it , you can see your application up and running on http://localhost:9000 . Get ready to Play !!!
Congrats your first Play-Scala application is created !!
We have Play and Slick , now let's add Slick support to it
- Java 8
- Play Framework 2.4.3 that comes with activator 1.3.5
- Slick 3.0
- Intelli IDE 14.1
- sbt.version 0.13.8
The best part of Play is that , it comes with activator which eliminates the need to install all the above into your local machine(except IDE) . Just installing activator can get you the you the basic web application created , up and running in just 3 steps !
Step 1 : Get the Typesafe Activator
Typesafe Activator is a single download to get you started building Reactive applications. Activator includes the SBT build tool.
As a first step of the tutorial, you need to download the Latest Typesafe Activator (downloading the mini-package should be sufficient ). Once you click on the download the mini-package , the download starts immediately . It takes less than one minute to download !
Extract the downloaded rar contents into a location where you have write privileges . For this tutorial I choose C drive . Now , the path to my activator is - C:\activator-1.3.5
Before running the activator command , you need to set its path else you would encounter the following error:
'activator' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
In case you don’t know how to set the path on windows , see here.
This completes the installation of activator on your machine and now you are all set to run the activator !!
Step 2 : Create your first Play application using Activator
Open the command prompt and navigate to the path where want to create your first Play application ( for this tutorial I choose E:/ )Give the command - activator new
Activator now displays you a set of templates to choose. For this tutorial we need to select play-scala template , so type 6 and hit enter.
Congrats your first Play-Scala application is created !!
Step 3 : Run your Play application on the local host
Navigate to the root path of your application (E:/MyFirstPlay)Give the command - activator run.
That’s it , you can see your application up and running on http://localhost:9000 . Get ready to Play !!!
Congrats your first Play-Scala application is created !!
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