Monday, December 12, 2016

New Gails 3 Book

We present here our new Grails 3 book. It is about how you can build a greenfield application using the framework: Grails 3 book - Step by Step

You can buy it here: Step By… by Cristian Olaru [Leanpub PDF/iPad/Kindle]. There is already a sample chapter available: Grails 3 - Step By Step


TABLE OF CONTENTS

First part - Grails 3 Essentials

An introduction to application development with Grails 3; we describe the main application that will be implemented in the second part of the book
Chapter 1 is an introduction to the framework. You will find here some history of the framework and a lot of links to the Grails resources; it is presenting the classical three layered architecture for a web application provided by Grails 3
Chapter 2 describes how to start your work with Grails 3 framework and how to install all the tools for a free working environment - free as much as possible because you have to pay some money for the best tools on the market
Chapter 3 presents the project we want to implement as an example; it is presenting also the way we choose to work on implementing the sample application, based on BDD, TDD and CI, CD; it shows how the main application is split in parts based on Grails 3 profiles

Second part - Practical example with Grails 3

A practical implementation of a greenfield application with Grails 3; the application is composed from multiple parts corresponding to various Grails 3 profiles
Chapter 4 describes the implementation of the application admin portal that will be used in Intranet by the site administrators, based on a classical Grails 3 Web Profile
Chapter 5 describes the implementation of the application site exposed to the Internet to the customers, that is based on Grails 3 Angular Profile
Chapter 6 describes a REST web API exposed with Grails 3 Rest Profile and consumed by a mobile hybrid application created with Ionic (can be published in Google Play, Apple Store and Windows Store)
Chapter 7 describes a microservice developed with Grails 3 Micro Profile

2 comments:

  1. Hi Christian, Just got the updated version of the book. I see Angular 1 is used, not Angular 2. This immediately dates the book. It's not dificult to install the Angular CLI. Is it possible to change the book and application to use the angualr2 profile?

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  2. Thank you for your comment. My response on the book page: https://leanpub.com/grails3book/feedback

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