An implementation of the java pet store using FP techniques in scala.
I have most of the endpoints in place. There are few big pieces remaining in case y'all want to lend a hand:
- Use TSec to add login / authentication using JWT
- Create a ScalaJS React front end
- Build tests using scala check in an idiomatic sane way
- Create a microsite documenting the patterns in the pet store. Kind of a mini-book
If you have general feedback on how things could be better, feel free to post an issue / gist or open a PR! I am looking for ideas like:
- If you are a FP or TypeLevel contributor, let me know if something is not idiomatic as per FP or one of the TypeLevel libs I am using. I want this app to be an example of how things should be done as much as possible.
- If you are an OO dev new-ish to Scala, let me know if something is confusing. I am trying to keep this project approachable. Feel free to email me or open an issue.
The goal for this project is to demonstrate how to build an application using FP techniques in Scala. When starting out in Scala coming from a Java background, it was extremely difficult to piece together all of the little bits in order to make a cohesive whole application.
As the goal of the project is to help Java / Spring folks understand how to build an application in Scala. I hope to use good practice / conventions using FP and Scala, while maintaining approachability for OO peeps.
I will reach out to Java developers along the way, to see if techniques that I use are too confusing, or have a low enough barrier to entry to pick up quickly.
I am going to work with the TypeLevel stack initially and see how far I can go with it. I believe that framing the concepts in code in an easy to understand way should be possible with Typelevel.
- Http4s as the web server. I could have gone with finch, twitter server, or akka-http here as well, but I have been interested in learning http4s
- Circe for json serialization
- Doobie for database access
- Cats for FP awesomeness
- ScalaCheck for property based testing
- PureConfig for app config
- Tagless Final for my core domain.
Start up sbt:
> sbt
Once sbt has loaded, you can start up the application
> ~reStart
This uses revolver, which is a great way to develop and test the application. Doing things this way the application will be automatically rebuilt when you make code changes
To stop the app in sbt, hit the Enter key and then type:
> reStop
Building out a test suite using Python. The reason is that typically we want to run tests against a live environment when we deploy our code in order to make sure that everything is running properly in the target environment. It is reassuring to know that your code works across clients.
In order to run the functional tests, your machine will need to have Python 2.7 and pip, and virtualenv.
- To install pip on a Mac, run
sudo easy_install pip - Then install virutalenv
sudo pip install virtualenv
To test out the app, first start it up following the directions above and doing reStart
Then, in a separate terminal, run the test suite:
> cd functional_test
> ./run.py live_tests -v