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Anyone doing some interesting Scala front and back projects? I'd love to hear some success (or lessons learned) stories. Is there a good "skeleton" project for

Anyone doing some interesting Scala front and back projects? I'd love to hear some success (or lessons learned) stories. Is there a good "skeleton" project for a front end Scala.js + back end Scala. I'm especially interested in reusing model objects between front and back, or is the best practice still to just use REST services the "old fashioned" way? (vs a more GWT-like approach that feels a little more like an RPC) I would love to have my next project be all Scala but I wonder what are the benefits beyond just having a single language in the project. Is there a good sbt plugin / template that has a good workflow for continuous development/integration/deployment using Scala+Scala.js?

easel 11y ago
There's a list of sites using scala.js on the website that evolves quite regularly. The scalajs-spa-tutorial at https://github.com/ochrons/scalajs-spa-tutorial https://github.com/ochrons/scalajs-spa-tutorial is probably the best place to see a full stack app that you can poke and prod at. It's been through a few iterations by now and represents a number of best practices The biggest benefit is probably having a solid type system that's isomorphic. Large, complex responses and post bodies can be seamlessly passed around with full IDE support and refactoring. Beyond that, it's scala.
redtuesday 11y ago
You could take a look at the stuff that li haoyi does: https://github.com/lihaoyi/autowire https://github.com/lihaoyi/autowire (because you mentioned rpc, but also his other stuff. His output is amazing).
kyle_u 11y ago
I built Boilerplay for that exact purpose - https://github.com/KyleU/boilerplay https://github.com/KyleU/boilerplay It uses the excellent sbt-scalajs to provide code shared between server and client, and a websocket controller that can receive those shared messages. It's tied to Play, sihouette, and postgres-async.
ybx 11y ago
The best skeleton I've found (if anything, it does too much even) is Otto Chrons' SPA tutorial: https://github.com/ochrons/scalajs-spa-tutorial https://github.com/ochrons/scalajs-spa-tutorial That's what I've used for one of my projects and it's worked out pretty well!

easel 11y ago

There's a list of sites using scala.js on the website that evolves quite regularly. The scalajs-spa-tutorial at https://github.com/ochrons/scalajs-spa-tutorial https://github.com/ochrons/scalajs-spa-tutorial is probably the best place to see a full stack app that you can poke and prod at. It's been through a few iterations by now and represents a number of best practices The biggest benefit is probably having a solid type system that's isomorphic. Large, complex responses and post bodies can be seamlessly passed around with full IDE support and refactoring. Beyond that, it's scala.

redtuesday 11y ago

You could take a look at the stuff that li haoyi does: https://github.com/lihaoyi/autowire https://github.com/lihaoyi/autowire (because you mentioned rpc, but also his other stuff. His output is amazing).

kyle_u 11y ago

I built Boilerplay for that exact purpose - https://github.com/KyleU/boilerplay https://github.com/KyleU/boilerplay It uses the excellent sbt-scalajs to provide code shared between server and client, and a websocket controller that can receive those shared messages. It's tied to Play, sihouette, and postgres-async.

ybx 11y ago

The best skeleton I've found (if anything, it does too much even) is Otto Chrons' SPA tutorial: https://github.com/ochrons/scalajs-spa-tutorial https://github.com/ochrons/scalajs-spa-tutorial That's what I've used for one of my projects and it's worked out pretty well!