Chapter 2. Your first reactive web application
This chapter covers
- Creating a new Play project
- Streaming data from a remote server and broadcasting it to clients
- Dealing with failure
In the previous chapter, we talked about the key benefits of adopting a reactive approach to web application design and operation, and you saw that the Play Framework is a good technology for this. Now it’s time to get your hands dirty and build a reactive web application. We’ll build a simple application that connects to the Twitter API to retrieve a stream of tweets and send them to clients using WebSockets.
2.1. Creating and running a new project
An easy way to start a new Play project is to use the Lightbend Activator, which is a thin wrapper around ...
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