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Lift Application Development Cookbook

By : Gilberto Tadeu Garcia Jun
Book Image

Lift Application Development Cookbook

By: Gilberto Tadeu Garcia Jun

Overview of this book

Developing secure web applications is one of the most important tasks developers have to deal with. With Lift, it is easy to create solid and formidable web applications as it is the most secure web framework available today. The View-First approach and being able to handle things as purely data transformation, makes working with Lift an exciting task. "Lift Application Development Cookbook" teaches you how to build web applications using this amazing framework. The book moves gradually, starting with the basics (starting a new project, submitting a form, and so on) before covering more advanced topics such as building a REST API and integrating your application with other technologies and applications. "Lift Application Development Cookbook" takes you on a journey of creating secure web applications. Step-by-step instructions help you understand how things work and how various elements relate to each other. You'll learn different ways to process a form, build dynamic HTML pages, and create an API using REST. You'll also learn how to work with relational and NoSQL databases and how to integrate your application with other technologies as well as with third-part applications such as Gmail and Facebook. By the end of the book, you will be able to understand how Lift works and be able to build web applications using this amazing and exciting framework.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Lift Application Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


In the previous chapter, we learned how to create a Lift project using both SBT and Maven. We also learned how to do basic things such as sending e-mails and configuring the SiteMap.

We also created few pages and examples to demonstrate some of the features of this amazing framework called Lift.

As, Lift is a framework used to build websites and applications using Scala, we need to learn how to create pages, how to manipulate HTML to create dynamic pages, how to localize our website, and a lot of other useful things that are necessary while building a website.

Another neat feature that you will see in the following recipes, is that Lift templates are designer friendly. That is because bindings between HTML and Lift snippets are made by adding markups inside the data-lift attribute of HTML tags. Since this is all you need to create the binding, your HTML file will be valid and designers working on the same project won't have a hard time editing them.

These are the topics that we...