Servlet container restarts don't have to have a huge overhead for development (not sure about using a full j2ee container). If you use SBT[1] plus the the xsbt

Servlet container restarts don't have to have a huge overhead for development (not sure about using a full j2ee container). If you use SBT[1] plus the the xsbt-web-plugin[2] then restarts are just as fast as they are for node projects. Disclaimer - I contribute to the xsbt-web-plugin [1] http://www.scala-sbt.org/ http://www.scala-sbt.org/ [2] https://github.com/JamesEarlDouglas/xsbt-web-plugin https://github.com/JamesEarlDouglas/xsbt-web-plugin