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Building Applications with Scala

By : Diego Pacheco
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Building Applications with Scala

By: Diego Pacheco

Overview of this book

<p>Scala is known for incorporating both object-oriented and functional programming into a concise and extremely powerful package. However, creating an app in Scala can get a little tricky because of the complexity the language has. This book will help you dive straight into app development by creating a real, reactive, and functional application. We will provide you with practical examples and instructions using a hands-on approach that will give you a firm grounding in reactive functional principles.</p> <p>The book will take you through all the fundamentals of app development within Scala as you build an application piece by piece. We’ve made sure to incorporate everything you need from setting up to building reports and scaling architecture. This book also covers the most useful tools available in the Scala ecosystem, such as Slick, Play, and Akka, and a whole lot more. It will help you unlock the secrets of building your own up-to-date Scala application while maximizing performance and scalability.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Applications with Scala
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Getting started


Let's have a look at the preview of Reactive Web Store--the application that we will build.

For now, we will build three simple operations--Create, Retrieve, Update, and Delete (CRUD) in order to manage products, product reviews, and product images. We will create models, controllers, views, and routes for each CRUD.

Let's get started. First of all, we need to define our models. The models need to be located at ReactiveWebStore/app/models. Models are the CORE of the system and they represent the entity. We will use this entity later to store and retrieve data from a database later on in Chapter 6, Persistence with Slick. Our models should not have any UI logic, since we should use controllers for UI logic.