Applications that interact with databases have a few moving pieces to keep in mind. Between the connection, the setup, and the queries, there is enough to find it overwhelming. This post will cover all those pieces in a Play application.
Building a single page application is a luxury not everyone can afford. If you are short on time, don’t learn Vue.js, React, or the other flavor of the month. Use Play Framework’s built-in templating engine, Twirl. It isn’t perfect but gets the job done.
Play Framework is a simple way to get started with Scala. My first post was a traditional “Hello, World!”. This one will show how to build a ReSTful API for a pet store.
Scala is a language stuck between two worlds. The FP world attracts many talents, but the OOP one is often where people start. My “taming cats” posts covered cats for the first group. Bellow is the start of a few posts on the Play Framework for the second.
The third one down the list is Monad.
Continuing with scary names, Applicative is next.
Computer science is great at finding off-putting vocabulary. It is able to hide simple concepts behind scary words, for example, Functors.
Scala supports supertypes and typeclasses. Those allowed me to write a generic maxOption function, in a previous article. With the overview out of the way, I will show in more detail how typeclasses can add real value to your project.
After a few months of writing about Cats, it is great to take a small break. This pause isn’t to start anything new but to build foundations for the upcoming posts. If you are looking to learn about those scary FP words, you will need to understand what is below.
Cats is a library which provides abstractions for functional programming in the Scala programming language. The name is a playful shortening of the word category.
Cats is a library which provides abstractions for functional programming in the Scala programming language. The name is a playful shortening of the word category.
Cats is a library which provides abstractions for functional programming in the Scala programming language. The name is a playful shortening of the word category.
Cats is a library which provides abstractions for functional programming in the Scala programming language. The name is a playful shortening of the word category.
Cats is a library which provides abstractions for functional programming in the Scala programming language. The name is a playful shortening of the word category.
Shrove Tuesday is over. After eating my weight in pancakes, I had a longer look at the recipe.