Grails 2.x best practices collection¶

| groovy | grails |

Recently, I had a pleasure to look into several Grails v.2.3+ projects. Despite the fact that I’m not a Grails developer I discovered some anti-patterns. Then I started looking around to find some Grails projects best practices. And they are well known and people still doing mistakes. However, I’ve found several nice resources and I’m (going to quite) quoting them here. I keep references back to original source and use “copy-paste” approach to have aggregated post in single place.

References¶

• Grails Plugin Development Best Practices
• What I wish I knew about Grails before my first Grails Project
• Groovy & Grails Design Best Practices very detailed
  • Grails Design Best Practices, 2013, by Nitin Kumar
• Grails Best Practices, 2013, by Nitin Kumar
• Grails Best Practice Resources, 2011
• Best practices with services and controllers, 2012
• InfoQ - Grails Best Practices, 2012
• SO - Best Practices to be followed while developing Grails Application, 2011
• Grails in large projects – Part 2, 2013 by Klaus Lehner
• Grails best practices, 2013 by Ashish Joseph
• Grails Best Practices presentation, 2013

Videos¶

• Cut your Grails application to pieces - build feature plugins
• Greach 2014 - Hexagonal Architecture in Grails by David Dawson
• Philosophical Architecture in Grails by David Dawson
• Experiences Using Grails in a Micro Service Architecture
• Application architectures with Grails

Interesting Grails people:

• http://www.anyware.co.uk/2005/2011/09/12/optimising-your-application-with-grails-resources-plugin/
• http://www.bobbywarner.com/