Learning material

These are the tools used by the template, you don't need to master them all but being familiar with them definitely helps:

• Scala, we use Scala 2.13 because it has great tooling support, we'll eventually upgrade to Scala 3.
• Scala.js powers the frontend side.
• Scalablytyped generates the Scala facades to interact with JavaScript libraries by converting TypeScript definitions to Scala.js facades.
• yarn (v1) as the JavaScript package manager.
• React as the view library.
• Slinky being the Scala wrapper for React.
• Webpack to bundle the web apps.
• Scalajs bundler being the Scala wrapper for Webpack.
• Material UI v3 as the Material UI framework on top of React (hoping to upgrade to v5 when Scalablytyped supports it).
• Play Framework as the backend framework, used for the REST API.
• sttp as the REST API client.
• react-router is the frontend routing library.
• play-json is the JSON library.
• ansible as the tool for deploying everything to a VM.
• nginx as the reverse proxy for handling the internet traffic, as well as the authentication mechanism for admin endpoints.
• GitHub actions integration so that you have a way to get every commit tested.