Lift Application Development Cookbook
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Lift Application Development Cookbook

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Developing secure web applications is one of the most important tasks developers have to deal with. With Lift, it is easy to create solid and formidable web applications as it is the most secure web framework available today. The View-First approach and being able to handle things as purely data transformation, makes working with Lift an exciting task.

"Lift Application Development Cookbook" teaches you how to build web applications using this amazing framework. The book moves gradually, starting with the basics (starting a new project, submitting a form, and so on) before covering more advanced topics such as building a REST API and integrating your application with other technologies and applications.

"Lift Application Development Cookbook" takes you on a journey of creating secure web applications. Step-by-step instructions help you understand how things work and how various elements relate to each other.

You'll learn different ways to process a form, build dynamic HTML pages, and create an API using REST. You'll also learn how to work with relational and NoSQL databases and how to integrate your application with other technologies as well as with third-part applications such as Gmail and Facebook.

By the end of the book, you will be able to understand how Lift works and be able to build web applications using this amazing and exciting framework.

Approach

Lift Application Development Cookbook contains practical recipes on everything you will need to create secure web applications using this amazing framework.
The book first teaches you basic topics such as starting a new application and gradually moves on to teach you advanced topics to achieve a certain task. Then, it explains every step in detail so that you can build your knowledge about how things work.

Who this book is for

This book is for developers who have at least some basic knowledge about Scala and who are looking for a functional, secure, and modern web framework. Prior experience with HTML and JavaScript is assumed.

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Publisher
Packt Publishing
Year
2013
ISBN
9781849515887
Edition
1
Topic
Computer Science
Subtopic
Programming Languages
Index
Computer Science

Lift Application Development Cookbook

Table of Contents

Lift Application Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
Why Subscribe?
Free Access for Packt account holders
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Getting Started with Lift Basics
Introduction
Creating a Lift application using SBT
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Creating a Lift application using Maven
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Defining a SiteMap
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Logging using logback
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Sending e-mails using Gmail's SMTP server
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
2. Working with HTML
Introduction
Transforming HTML elements using their IDs
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Creating an HTML list using CSS selectors
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Creating an HTML table with dynamically defined columns
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Nesting snippets
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Dynamic menu rendering
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Localizing templates
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Testing snippets using Specs2
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Creating custom error pages
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Sending JavaScript commands from the server
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Invoking server-side functions from the client
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
3. Working with Forms
Introduction
Creating forms
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Validating forms
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Creating an Ajax form
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Creating multipage forms
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Defining a relation between form fields
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
4. Working with REST
Introduction
Getting data from the server
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Creating data using the REST service
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Modifying data using the REST service
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Deleting data using the REST service
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Testing a REST service using Specs2
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Uploading a file using the REST service
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating an RSS feed
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
5. Working with Databases
Introduction
Configuring a connection to database
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also...
Mapping a table to a Scala class
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also...
Creating one-to-many relationships
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also...
Creating many-to-many relationships
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also...
Creating CRUD features with CRUDify
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Paginating result sets
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Using an in-memory database in application tests
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
6. Working with Record
Introduction
Configuring a connection to a database using Squeryl
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Mapping a table to a Scala class
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Migrating the database using Liquibase
Getting ready...
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Creating one-to-many relationships
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating many-to-many relationships
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Paginating result sets using Record
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Testing your application using an in-memory database
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
7. Working with MongoDB
Introduction
Connecting to MongoDB using record
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Mapping a MongoDB collection to a Scala class
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Mapping embedded objects
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Mapping referenced objects
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also...
Querying with Rogue
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also...
8. Integrating Lift with Social Media
In...

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  1. Lift Application Development Cookbook