ics-play-bootstrap

Overview

This is a revised version of the Activator 'play-java' template system which:

• Conforms to the ICS software engineering coding standards

• Illustrates how to incorporate Twitter Bootstrap 3 into Play.

To use it, first create an empty GitHub repo and clone to your desktop.

Next, cd into your new repo and set ics-play-bootstrap as the upstream master:

git remote add upstream https://github.com/ics613s15/ics-play-bootstrap.git

Next, merge the contents of ics-play-bootstrap into your new empty repo:

git fetch upstream
git merge upstream/master

Now your repo will contain the ics-play-bootstrap repo.

Edit the build.sbt file to change the name to your new project.

Features

ics-play-bootstrap provides the following features:

• Modifications to the "play-java" Activator template to eliminate checkstyle errors.

• Rename view files to be capitalized (i.e. Index.scala.html, not index.scala.html). This is so that the Java class generated by these templates are capitalized, conforming to standard Java practice.

• Modifications to Main.scala.html template to load Twitter Bootstrap 3 files using CDN sites.

• Modifications to illustrate simple page navigation through changes to the controller, routes, and view files.

• The navbar highlights the current active page through a parameter passed from the controller.

• The main.css adjusts body padding due to the use of the fixed-top navbar.

• Support for simple tests.

Screencast

A short screencast containing a walkthrough of these features is available here.

Version information

Play 2.3.7, Bootstrap 3.3.2