IIT-PlayFramework-Session

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Play as backend is a three week session series that I have conducted for the second year students of Informatics

Week One

• Intro to ‘frontend vs backend’ concepts, technologies and opprtunities.
• Full-Stack development.
• Intro to Play as a backend.
• Combining Play with front end tech (concepts).
• What is MVC pattern / architecture.
• Play setup and base play project structure.

Week Two

• What the heck is REST APIs?
• Concepts of REST APIs.
• Developing REST APIs with play (coding).
• Usage of tools like postman.

Week Three

• Combining Play with a frontend (angular) and exposing an API ( coding ).
• Pros and Cons of cofigurations.

For further knowledge

• Play as Backend slide deck
• Frontend vs Backend
• Overview of Play Framework
• MVC in 8 minutes