In this chapter, we introduced one of the modern and open source Reactive Platforms—Lagom Reactive Platform. It contains all the Reactive Technology stacks, such as Lagom Framework, Play, Scala, Akka Toolkit, and more.
We discussed Lagom Framework basics, and its internal components and building blocks to understand this platform well.
Then, we downloaded the Lagom Hello Service from the Lightbend Tech Hub and discussed each and every piece of code in detail. This gave us solid knowledge of Lagom Framework in order to develop our Reactive System.
Finally, we developed our Reactive System, the WF Reactive System, using the Lagom Framework Technology stack: Lagom Framework, Play Framework, Akka Toolkit, Akka Streams API, Lagom Persistence API, Cassandra, Kafka, Zookeeper, SBT, and IntelliJ IDE.
We tested our WF Reactive System very well using the web browser and some...
