Introduction to Grails
This course will introduce the Grails web application framework. Grails is a Rails like framework built on top of Spring and Hibernate Java technologies.
What you'll learn
This course will introduce the Grails web application framework. Grails is a Rails like framework built on top of Spring and Hibernate Java technologies. Grails utilizes the Groovy programming language. By the end of this course you should be able to understand architecturally how Grails works, determine the pros and cons of Grails and have successfully coded a full blown sample application using Grails.
Table of contents
- Introduction 0m
- Java Prerequisites 1m
- Installing A JDK 2m
- Installing Grails via GVM 1m
- Demo: GVM 3m
- Installing Grails via Download 2m
- Grails Command Overview 2m
- Creating A New Grails Application 1m
- Demo: Creating A Grails App 1m
- Grails Project Layout Structure 2m
- Running The Server 2m
- Demo: Running The Server and App 2m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 0m
- Interactive Grails Console 2m
- Demo: Console and Shell 4m
- Database Migrations 3m
- Grails DB Migration Commands 3m
- Demo: DB Migrations 4m
- Plugins and Dependencies 3m
- Code Generators 2m
- Demo: Scaffold Generation 9m
- IDE Integration 2m
- Using Java in Grails 1m
- Demo: Java Example 2m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Dan Bunker is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Monolith Brands Group, an eCommerce company based in Brooklyn, New York. Dan has used a variety of technologies throughout his career. He currently has expertise with Java, Ruby, Python and JavaScript languages and related technologies. In addition to a passion for software development (SaaS), Dan enjoys mentoring, training and advising engineers and developers in their careers.