Peter Hilton - Play for Scala: Covers Play 2 [2013, EPUB, ENG]

TABLE OF CONTENTS brief table of contents
FOREWORD
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THE COVER ILLUSTRATION
PART 1 GETTING STARTED
1. INTRODUCTION TO PLAY 2
1.1. What Play is
1.2. High-productivity web development
1.3. Why Scala needs Play
1.4. Type-safe web development—why Play needs Scala
1.5. Hello Play!
1.6. The console
1.7. Summary
2. YOUR FIRST PLAY APPLICATION
2.1. The product list page
2.2. Details page
2.3. Adding a new product
2.4. Summary
PART 2 CORE FUNCTIONALITY
3. DECONSTRUCTING PLAY APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE
3.1. Drawing the architectural big picture
3.2. Application configuration—enabling features and changing defaults
3.3. The model—adding data structures and business logic
3.4. Controllers—handling HTTP requests and responses
3.5. View templates—formatting output
3.6. Static and compiled assets
3.7. Jobs—starting processes
3.8. Modules—structuring your application
3.9. Summary
4. DEFINING THE APPLICATION’S HTTP INTERFACE
4.1. Designing your application’s URL scheme
4.2. Controllers—the interface between HTTP and Scala
4.3. Routing HTTP requests to controller actions
4.4. Binding HTTP data to Scala objects
4.5. Generating HTTP calls for actions with reverse routing
4.6. Generating a response
4.7. Summary
5. STORING DATA—THE PERSISTENCE LAYER
5.1. Talking to a database
5.2. Creating the schema
5.3. Using Anorm
5.4. Using Squeryl
5.5. Caching data
5.6. Summary
6. BUILDING A USER INTERFACE WITH VIEW TEMPLATES
6.1. The why of a template engine
6.2. Type safety of a template engine
6.3. Template basics and common structures
6.4. Structuring pages: template composition
6.5. Reducing repetition with implicit parameters
6.6. Using LESS and CoffeeScript: the asset pipeline
6.7. Internationalization
6.8. Summary
7. VALIDATING AND PROCESSING INPUT WITH THE FORMS API
7.1. Forms—the concept
7.2. Forms basics
7.3. Creating and processing HTML forms
7.4. Validation and advanced mappings
7.5. Summary
PART 3 ADVANCED CONCEPTS
8. BUILDING A SINGLE-PAGE JAVASCRIPT APPLICATION WITH JSON
8.1. Creating the single-page Play application
8.2. Serving data to a JavaScript client
8.3. Sending JSON data to the server
8.4. Validating JSON
8.5. Authenticating JSON web service requests
8.6. Summary
9. PLAY AND MORE
9.1. Modules
9.2. Plugins
9.3. Deploying to production
9.4. Summary
10. WEB SERVICES, ITERATEES, AND WEBSOCKETS
10.1. Accessing web services
10.2. Dealing with streams using the iteratee library
10.3. WebSockets: Bidirectional communication with the browser
10.4. Using body parsers to deal with HTTP request bodies
10.5. Another way to look at iteratees
10.6. Summary