The Grails Framework
Authors: The Grails Team
Version: 3.3.2
Introduction
Grails is a full stack framework and attempts to solve as many pieces of the web development puzzle through the core technology and its associated plugins. Included out the box are things like:
- GORM An easy to use Object Mapping library with support for SQL, MongoDB, Neo4j and more.
- View technologies for rendering HTML as well as JSON
- A controller layer built on Spring Boot
- A plugin system featuring hundreds of plugins.
- Flexible profiles to create applications with AngularJS, React and more.
- An interactive command line environment and build system based on Gradle
- An embedded Tomcat container which is configured for on the fly reloading
Getting Started
- Download and then set up an environment variable called JAVA_HOME pointing to the location of Java Development Kit (JDK) installed version 1.7 or above
- Download and set the GRAILS_HOME environment variable to the location a binary distribution of Grails