scala-webapp-template VS slinky

I'm also working on improving our template to provide a better developer experience (https://github.com/wiringbits/scala-webapp-template/issues/307).

Ticket: https://github.com/wiringbits/scala-webapp-template/issues/294

After thinking for a bit, I got to the conclusion that Vercel's preview environments are not really hard to implement. Then, I put my hands into this and created an integration for one of our projects: https://github.com/wiringbits/scala-webapp-template/pull/299

You can also check out our template which uses Scala.js + Slinky + Mui.

https://github.com/wiringbits/scala-webapp-template does something very similar with akka-stream but it is tied to send emails on the background, it seems that we can easily extend it to support arbitrary jobs (https://github.com/wiringbits/scala-webapp-template/issues/294). What is not so simple to do with such a schema is to distribute the jobs in many servers.

Given this, I wonder if you have ever worked with Ansible, if so, you could pick these playbooks to deploy to a ubuntu server, these playbooks are pretty generic for Scala apps, you will need to update the build/run script, everything else is already handled (like uploading the app to a server, creating users, registering a systemd service, etc).

Take a look at https://github.com/wiringbits/scala-webapp-template and https://github.com/playframework/play-samples

Years ago, I wrote some ansible scripts so that ansible-playbook -i test-hosts.ini server.yml is enough to deploy the app (sample).

Given that you aren't familiar with Scala, I'd suggest looking into Play Framework, if you want to start fast and play with a project, check this template, your js background could help you to update the frontend relatively quick.

I'd suggest to check this template which already has an skeleton for a CRUD app, including deployment scripts that can mount an environment in ubuntu servers.

It also benefits from being one of the only full-stack languages.

Scala.js has excellent front-end frameworks like Slinky React [1], Laminar [2] and Scala has industry-leading concurrency libraries like ZIO [3]. I've yet to find anything that comes close for end to end web apps.

[1] https://slinky.dev

I hope you do a tutorial with Slinky.

If you are just starting I would strongly recommend going with Slinky over Scalajs-React as it it's very close to normal Javascript and will make the translation easier.

A few links: * https://medium.com/geekculture/cross-platform-mobile-dev-with-scala-and-capacitor-54e69b62b50c * https://slinky.dev

Slinky for me is a perfect example of a library.

For those interested in Scala.js I would recommend two UI frameworks:

a) Slinky - https://slinky.dev

b) Laminar - https://slinky.dev

p.s. Slinky is another Scala.js based React wrapper that you might like to explore.

Slinky has an example of their docs being generated using SSR with Scala.js.

b) Slinky is by far my favourite React framework. It is simple, well supported and matches up with Javascript so you easily port code. You can use any React UI library you like although my preference right now is Shoelace. I can open source my wrappers if there is interest.

Slinky shines here because it is pretty similar to writing React in js, you can even export your own components to be consumed from js apps, I consider this the better alternative for onboarding js people.