Introduction to Grails: A Powerful Groovy-Based Web Application Framework
Grails is a Groovy-based web application framework built on Spring Boot. It provides sensible defaults, opinionated APIs, and supports various databases. With features like convention-over-configuration and flexible profiles, Grails is easy to learn for Java developers. Plugins, file structures, example classes, and more aspects of Grails development process are covered in the content.
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International Living Atlases Workshop Madrid 2018 Introduction to Grails Nick dos Remedios
Grails https://grails.org/ A powerful Groovy-based web application framework for the JVM built on top of Spring Boot Convention-over-configuration, sensible defaults, opinionated APIs, and the Groovy language combine to make Grails easy to learn for Java developers MongoDB, Neo4j and more. View technologies for rendering HTML as well as JSON A controller layer built on Spring Boot A plugin system featuring hundreds of plugins. Flexible profiles to create applications with AngularJS, React and more. An interactive command line environment and build system based on Gradle An embedded Tomcat container which is configured for on the fly reloading This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
File Structure $ grails create-app au.org.ala.testApp This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Example classes $ grails create-domain-class au.org.ala.testApp.User This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Controller $ grails create-controller au.org.ala.testApp.user $ grails run-app $ Grails application running at http://localhost:8080 in environment: development This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
testApp running This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Files you may need to edit build.gradle -- version, package, library dependencies grails-app/conf/application.[groovy|yml] -- configuration (defaults) grails-app/assets/[stylesheets|javascript|images] grails-app/i18n/messages.properties -- internationisation (translation) files grails-app/views/layouts -- header & footer (not needed for new version) grails-app/controllers/.../UrlMappings.groovy -- custom URLs This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Plugins Plugins allow the client application to override/customise functionality and still allow changes to core changes to be maintained Break large app into smaller parts Common components Third party plugins Grails plugins and applications are mostly the same - minor differences in a few files but directory structure is the same Client app only needs to implement files that are different to the plugin, all other files are inherited May need to break large GSP files into smaller include files (e.g. _advanced.gsp) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
