What features make Play 2.x appealing?

[Bhaarat Sharma]

I'm trying to learn Play 2 (I can't seem to change the 2.0 in the title ..). Before I start reading the documentation/books/tutorials I wanted to come up with a project that I could do in Play. That way I can apply stuff I learn to a project and learn more in that process.

I've come up with a dummy project with basic requirements. It is a project that would make JSON API available via Play. That way I can focus just on Play and not worry about UI related stuff. I've come up with the below basic requirements. The question I have is, which, if any, of these requirements make Play an appealing solution for something like this? If there are none, could the community please give me some basic requirements I could add that would make me realize the power of Play? I'm very interested in how Akka helps Play and concurrency.

The REST Service Shall mimics 99designs.

• Be able to register a user as designer or businessowner
• Be able to authenticate a user based on Tokens
• Allow businessowner to start a contest
• Allow designers to upload designs to a contest
• Allow businessowners to see the designs for their contest
• Allow businessowners to award a design they like best
• Transfer fake money to the winning designers account

[Will Sargent]

There's a guide by Lightbend on using Play in a REST API:

http://developer.lightbend.com/guides/play-rest-api/

Authenticating users and tokens is either Silhouette if you're on Scala: http://silhouette.mohiva.com/docs

or Play-Authenticate if you're on Java: http://joscha.github.io/play-authenticate/

You may want to use Deadbolt for authorization if you want to set limitations on what users can do.

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[Bhaarat Sharma]

Thanks Will. I came across that guide a few days ago and have it book marked. Thanks for the suggestions on Authentication. However, I'm still curious to know which demo/sample features I can add to this sample application that would be perfect for Play/Akka application. Or, in other general terms, when evaluating frameworks to build an application on what type of requirements might favor the decision towards Play/Akka?

Would welcome suggestions If there is a book/guide that can answers these questions.

On Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 3:59:46 PM UTC-4, Will Sargent wrote:

There's a guide by Lightbend on using Play in a REST API:

http://developer.lightbend.com/guides/play-rest-api/

Authenticating users and tokens is either Silhouette if you're on Scala: http://silhouette.mohiva.com/docs

or Play-Authenticate if you're on Java: http://joscha.github.io/play-authenticate/

You may want to use Deadbolt for authorization if you want to set limitations on what users can do.

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Will Sargent

Engineer, Lightbend, Inc.

will.s...@lightbend.com

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Bhaarat Sharma <bhaa...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm trying to learn Play 2 (I can't seem to change the 2.0 in the title ..). Before I start reading the documentation/books/tutorials I wanted to come up with a project that I could do in Play. That way I can apply stuff I learn to a project and learn more in that process.

I've come up with a dummy project with basic requirements. It is a project that would make JSON API available via Play. That way I can focus just on Play and not worry about UI related stuff. I've come up with the below basic requirements. The question I have is, which, if any, of these requirements make Play an appealing solution for something like this? If there are none, could the community please give me some basic requirements I could add that would make me realize the power of Play? I'm very interested in how Akka helps Play and concurrency.

The REST Service Shall mimics 99designs.

• Be able to register a user as designer or businessowner
• Be able to authenticate a user based on Tokens
• Allow businessowner to start a contest
• Allow designers to upload designs to a contest
• Allow businessowners to see the designs for their contest
• Allow businessowners to award a design they like best
• Transfer fake money to the winning designers account

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[Will Sargent]

> However, I'm still curious to know which demo/sample features I can add to this sample application that would be perfect for Play/Akka application.

> Or, in other general terms, when evaluating frameworks to build an application on what type of requirements might favor the decision towards Play/Akka?

Those questions should be covered under the introduction of the Play REST API article:

https://developer.lightbend.com/guides/play-rest-api/index.html#when-to-use-play

Does it not make the case for Play?  What questions do you have that aren't covered by it?

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[Bhaarat Sharma]

Thanks, Will. That makes sense. I'll research a bit more about Akka streams and what features they might help with in a webapp.