Chapter 1, Getting Started with Lift Basics, covers the basics of Lift which include how to start a new application using build tools such as SBT and Maven. It also explains how to define the application structure using SiteMap object and how to use the Mailer object to send e-mails.

Chapter 2, Working with HTML, introduces the reader to CSS selectors and shows how to use them to transform the HTML that will be rendered in the browser. It also covers how to test snippets, how to generate a JavaScript code from the server, and how to invoke server-side functions using JavaScript. It also explains how to localize templates.

Chapter 3, Working with Forms, covers the different ways the reader can work with forms, such as how to create a single page form and a wizard-like form. It also explains how to submit forms using Ajax and how to wire form fields.

Chapter 4, Working with REST, introduces Lift's RestHelper object and how to use it to create a REST API. It also explains how to test the REST API, how to upload files, and how to create an RSS feed.

Chapter 5, Working with Databases, explains how to use Mapper to integrate the application with a database. It also covers the basics of ORM mapping and how to use an in-memory database to test an application that uses Mapper.

Chapter 6, Working with Record, explains how to integrate a Lift application with a database using Record and Squeryl. It also covers how to test an application that uses Record and Squeryl using an in-memory database.

Chapter 7, Working with MongoDB, covers the integration of a Lift application with MongoDB, how to use Record to create such an integration, and explains how to query MongoDB using Rogue.

Chapter 8, Integrating Lift with Social Media, explains how to use social login to authenticate users and how to get their data from their Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, or LinkedIn accounts.

To be able to follow the recipes, you will need to have Java 7 installed on your computer.

This book is for developers who want to learn how to develop web applications using the Lift framework. However, we assume that the reader at least knows the basics of Scala, HTML, and JavaScript.

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The bigger difference lies in the snippet code. You can see that after getting the user data, we've invoked a method called fetchUserData and used its result to change the contents of a li tag."

A block of code is set as follows:

import code.lib.googleSession
import net.liftweb.util.BindHelpers._
import net.liftweb.common.Full

object GmailData {
  def render = {
    googleSession.get match {
      case Full(email) => ".email" #> email
      case _ =>  "*" #> "Not authorized"
    }
  }
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

        <pubDate> {longDate(Calendar.getInstance().getTimeInMillis)} </pubDate>
        {ClientCache.clients.flatMap {
        c =>
          <item>
            <title>Client: {c.id}</title>
            <description>Name: {c.name} - E-mail: {c.email}</description>

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

scala> val transformSpanContent = "span *" #> "Some Text"

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "If you select a name in the combobox and click on the Delete Selected button, you'll see an alert saying that the name you selected was deleted."

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