Reactive REST on Play2 & ReactiveMongo

A quick tutorial focused on building a quick Reactive application with Play2 Framework that features a REST API backed by the asynchronous ReactiveMongo driver. Tutorial and sources available at https://github.com/47deg/bbcdzREST

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1. REST Services with Play2 Scala & ReactiveMongo
2. Who am I? @raulraja 47deg.com raulraja.com Scala, Java, Objective-C
3. MAIN TOOLS TO BUILD THIS APP
4. App frameworks are like hipsters, always looking for the next cool thing. There is a new kid on the block... REACTIVE APPS Only one thing is better than reactive apps. Monkey beard JORGE!
5. Let’s get started
6. Create the APP
7. Run it!
9. Play uses conf/routes to map http requests to controller actions
10. Play projects are SBT projects, here we add the dependencies
11. Play plugins are registered in conf/play.plugins
12. In conf/application.conf we add things like DB settings
13. In DEV mode you can see the configured routes on a bogus URL
14. Controllers implement the actions
15. Let’s build it! If you did not attend the session a full tutorial is here https://github.com/47deg/bbcdzREST
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