You do not need "play" installed, as Play is using SBT as the package manager. So without the framework installed and in your PATH, you can just go to an app's

You do not need "play" installed, as Play is using SBT as the package manager. So without the framework installed and in your PATH, you can just go to an app's directory and do "sbt start". It will download all dependencies needed, compile your app and start the server.