One of the nicest features in Play 2, but one which doesn’t seem to be widely covered, is the JavaScript routing that can be generated by the framework to make AJAX-based client code more maintainable. Here, I’m going to cover Read more
In the Play! documentation, several flavours of functional testing are mentioned, including starting a HTTP server for the duration of the test – this is very useful for testing web services. In code, this looks like import static play.test.Helpers.*; … Read more
A few weeks ago, I started playing around with Backbone.js. At the end of last week, I noticed something on Twitter about Leaflet. I’ve been a long-time devotee of the Play! framework, as you may be aware if you’ve ever Read more
I’ve recently been doing a lot of work with backbone.js, a JavaScript MVC framework that’s excellent for building clean applications that are backed by RESTful JSON web services. It offers a nice separation of concerns, supports your favourite JavaScript templating Read more