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Mastering play framework for scala

You're reading from   Mastering play framework for scala Leverage the awesome features of Play Framework to build scalable, resilient, and responsive applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783983803
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Play FREE CHAPTER 2. Defining Actions 3. Building Routes 4. Exploring Views 5. Working with Data 6. Reactive Data Streams 7. Playing with Globals 8. WebSockets and Actors 9. Testing 10. Debugging and Logging 11. Web Services and Authentication 12. Play in Production 13. Writing Play Plugins Index

ReactiveMongo


A lot of applications these days use a NoSQL database as a result of unstructured data, write scalability, and so on. MongoDB is one such database. According to its website (http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/introduction/):

MongoDB is an open source document database that provides high performance, high availability, and automatic scaling.

Key features of MongoDB are:

High performance

High availability (automatic failover, data redundancy)

Automatic scaling (horizontal scalability)

ReactiveMongo is a Scala driver for MongoDB that supports non-blocking and asynchronous I/O operations. There is a plugin for the Play Framework called Play-ReactiveMongo. It is not a Play plugin but it's supported and maintained by the team of ReactiveMongo.

Note

This section requires prior knowledge of MongoDB, so please refer to https://www.mongodb.org/.

To use it, we need to do the following:

  1. Include it as a dependency in the build file:

    libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
      "org.reactivemongo" %% "play2-reactivemongo...
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