Gradle Essentials: Master the fundamentals of Gradle using real-world projects with this quick and easy-to-read guide

Dabir

Maheshwari

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Paperback Dec 2015 176 pages 1st Edition

Dabir

Maheshwari

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Write beautiful build scripts for various types of projects effortlessly
Become more productive by harnessing the power and elegance of the Gradle DSL
Learn how to use Gradle quickly and effectively with this step-by-step guide

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Gradle is an advanced and modern build automation tool. It inherits the best elements of the past generation of build tools, but it also differs and innovates to bring terseness, elegance, simplicity, and the flexibility to build. Right from installing Gradle and writing your first build file to creating a fully-fledged multi-module project build, this book will guide you through its topics in a step-by-step fashion. You will get your hands dirty with a simple Java project built with Gradle and go on to build web applications that are run with Jetty or Tomcat. We take a unique approach towards explaining the DSL using the Gradle API, which makes the DSL more accessible and intuitive. All in all, this book is a concise guide to help you decipher the Gradle build files, covering the essential topics that are most useful in real-world projects. With every chapter, you will learn a new topic and be able to readily implement your build files.

Who is this book for?

This book is for Java and other JVM-based language developers who want to use Gradle or are already using Gradle on their projects. No prior knowledge of Gradle is required, but some familiarity with build-related terminologies and an understanding of the Java language would help.

What you will learn

Master the Gradle DSL by identifying the building blocks
Learn just enough Groovy for Gradle
Set up tests and reports for your projects to make them CI ready
Create library, stand-alone, and web projects
Craft multi-module projects quickly and efficiently
Migrate existing projects to a modern Gradle build
Extract common build logic into plugins
Write builds for languages like Java, Groovy, and Scala

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Js Jun 03, 2018

Je le recommande:- Intro à Groovy, language de scripting utilisé par Gradle- La philosophie de Gradle, son organisation, etc.- Et comment l'utiliser dans un contexte CI, etc.Ce n'est pas non plus un bouquin exhaustif (que 150 pages), mais juste suffisant pour rentrer dans Gradle.Bref, ravi.

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CCH Apr 04, 2017

Having first encountered mysterious and incomprehensible (to me) build.gradle files in online collaborations, I finally decided to see what all the fuss was about and bought this book to learn Gradle from scratch. I'm glad I did! In less than 2 hours, I was writing and customizing my own Gradle build scripts. This book is easy to read and full of examples.I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning Gradle, especially those who scoff at one-line build.gradle files for their apparent opacity and lack of implementation details (as I once did). This book does not assume that you know Maven (I certainly don't) or any other particular build tool.To get the most out of this book, however, you will need a little bit of Java programming knowledge. If you have ever made a Java program that runs from a .jar file or used a class library stored in a .jar file, then you won't have any trouble.My only other critique of this book would be that I wish it had told me to go look at the official Gradle documentation for the Java plugin right after explaining it, to further demystify the nuts-and-bolts of Gradle.

Chris F Jul 23, 2018

The book is true to its title - Gradle "Essentials." I've followed the first three chapters so far and the material enhanced the little knowledge I had about Gradle. If you don't know Gradle and need help scratching the surface, this book is easy to follow. It helped that I knew Maven already, but this book gives you the fundamentals.

Andre Burgaud Jan 31, 2016

Disclosure: I am a technical reviewer for this book.Gradle Essentials is the book I would have liked to read when I started using Gradle. It gives the reader the necessary guidance to get started without prior knowledge of Gradle. There is no complex topics requiring understanding the internals of Gradle. The authors provide practical information that can immediately be applied in the typical stages of software development lifecycle: development, testing, continuous integration and also deployment.In addition to tackling key features of Gradle, the book also contains a couple of great tips that are time savers in Java projects. Among many other features described in the book, I found the two following tips very valuable:Gradle Daemon in Chapter 1: Java is known to be slow to start. When compiling, or running tests, it can be frustrating to have to wait for the build tool to warm up before getting some results. The Gradle daemon addresses this problem.Running a Web Application in Chapter 3: If your project is a classic Java web site that typically results in a war file, you probably have to include documentation to explain how to deploy the war file after having installed a web site container, like Tomcat for example. In chapter 3 the author provides a solution that can reduce all the documentation to:$ git clone your-project$ cd your-project$ gradle runChapter 7 covers testing and surprisingly uses TestNG. I realized that TestNG was still relevant and found it more refreshing then if it had been JUnit. Nevertheless, I was hoping to read about Spock, thinking it would be more inline with the underlying Groovy language common to both Gradle and Spock.I would recommend this book to anyone who is new to Gradle, or someone already using Gradle but who did not have a chance yet to explore further what is really possible with this build tool.

Jatin Vaidya Jan 01, 2018

Succinct like the title suggests. Good read overall and especially for demystifying some of the cryptic syntax used by gradle/groovy.

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