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I have used Grails since version 0.42 and I am a bit surprised to hear that the documentation has been incomplete. I have always found it very detailed, though
by olavgg 8y ago
I have used Grails since version 0.42 and I am a bit surprised to hear that the documentation has been incomplete. I have always found it very detailed, though sometimes lacking clarity as any framework documentation would have. Since the early days, the way you build Grails application has been almost identical to how you write and structure your code with the upcoming 4.0 release. Of course if you have used some plugins that has been unmaintained, that could have caused issues with upgrading. But otherwise I have had a great experience through Grails lifetime.
And if you really needed to get "out of Grails", there has never been an issue using the Spring MVC api or Spring Boot with Grails 3+
- lame88 8y agoIt is still now distant enough that I can't recall specific examples, but what I had found is that the solutions in blog posts etc. on Grails 2 (large majority of search results) did not apply to or did not work with Grails 3 when we tried them, unsurprising given a major version change, but frustrating nonetheless. I suspect that since you were following Grails's progression from such an early stage, any incompleteness or lack of clarity in the documentation may have not been so obvious to you because you would have been able to implicitly fill in the gaps, but we as newcomers found it totally inadequate. It was often reduced to black-box trial and error.