The Grails Framework
- Introduction
- Getting Started

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

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