JavaScript for Grails Developers

As Java web developers, most of our work is on the server side. With Grails, that work is much easier and more fun. But what about the client-side? The best-written web app isn't going to do well without a good user experience. And these days, a good user experience means JavaScript. Grails' GSPs and custom tags provide a powerful and easy-to-use framework for including JavaScript in our applications.

n this session we'll see what Grails' built-in JavaScript tags give us, and what we can learn from them. Then we'll look at some tips, techniques and plugins that can help us go even further. Finally, we'll learn how to create our custom GSP JavaScript tags. Our examples will be using Prototype and jQuery, but will apply to most of the major JavaScript libraries.

About Dave Klein

After 28 years as a developer, architect, project manager (recovered), author, trainer, conference organizer, and homeschooling dad, Dave Klein landed his dream job as a developer advocate at Confluent. Dave is marveling in and eager to help others explore the amazing world of event streaming with Apache Kafka.

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