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Eva G.

Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/23/2019

"Masterpiece for certain cases"

4/5

What do you like best about Play?

It could be very useful, especially when creating a pull request after you have faced a real problem. This structure is web-oriented. It is really easy to implement and handle code - back end and front end. Programming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Play?

I don't like the documentation. Also, this structure is less popular than Spring or Java EE - this means a lot of asking on StackOverflow or the Play support group instead of having an answer on the board - Tooling around sbt can sometimes be very confusing - Scala sbt could be very slow - dependency resolution is slow - it pulls a lot of things. Actually, I haven't hit many bugs yet, so this is my complete list. Spring was almost out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Play:

You do not need to use TypeSafe, Lightbend, or any platform to use the framework. This makes project maintenance smoother. Play is a high-performance and scalable web application framework. Avoid Norm and Slick, consider using Quill for transactional SQL execution and model binding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Play solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having data visible on the client side as soon as it is processed is great from a User Experience perspective - and more and more software companies should realize that it is easy to write concurrent code with Scala in the Play framework. It is a battle-tested framework that is analogous to Spring Boot in Java. Having data visible on the client side as soon as it is processed is great from a User Experience perspective - and more and more software companies should realize that Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.