Slides from the London Play Framework meetu at Mind Candy http://www.meetup.com/The-London-Play-Framework-Meetup-Group/events/127732662/

1. Play Framework Meetup
at Mind Candy, 8 August 2013

2. MindCandy is hiring!
mindcandy.com/recruitment
Amanda Cowie @amandacowie

3. MindCandy is hiring!
mindcandy.com/recruitment
Amanda Cowie @amandacowie

4. Guy’s talk

5. Running Tasks with Play
Making deployments easier

6. Play is good for a bunch of reasons
• Scala
• Fast
• Scalable
• Easy to be productive
• More
• Buzzwords
• Here
That’s why we’re all here

7. Akka is your best friend
If you’re building tools to run tasks then Akka makes loads of things
easier
Play makes it easy to create a complex, asynchronous, actor system, and
put a good web UI on top
This comes in handy when you’re building tools for people, not services
for machines

9. Sankai
Sankai is the tool we built for deploying the Moshi Monsters flash
It serves three main functions
• Managing the dependencies of the flash bundle
• Running the deployment scripts
• Keeping logs of script output and deployed dependencies

10. A simpler example
Sankai is quite large and a bit crufty, so I wrote a smaller example
All the code is up on github
github.com/rumblesan/play-fabric-tasks

11. open mic?

12. Javascript Routing
• Don’t RepeatYourself
• Reverse Routing for Javascript

13. Play’s Javascript Router
• Embedded
• emitted directly with web page
• External
• loaded via separate GET

14. Example code
github.com/mcmarkb/play-javascript-routing-example

15. future meetups
• open mic
• tips / experiences
• hackathons
• challenges