Lift Application Development Cookbook

If you want the ultimate in security for your web applications you need to know the Lift framework. This book lets you dive straight into a whole range of features and techniques thanks to its 50+ practical recipes.

• Lift made easy with step-by-steps recipes written by a developer for developers
• Practical examples covering topics from basic to advanced levels
• Learn to use Schemifier to automatically create tables and columns
• Understand how to integrate Lift with other technologies and social media
• Filled with task-based recipes to create web applications in a very secure manner

In Detail

Developing secure web applications is one of the most important tasks developers have to deal with. With Lift, it is easy to create solid and formidable web applications as it is the most secure web framework available today. The View-First approach and being able to handle things as purely data transformation, makes working with Lift an exciting task.

"Lift Application Development Cookbook" teaches you how to build web applications using this amazing framework. The book moves gradually, starting with the basics (starting a new project, submitting a form, and so on) before covering more advanced topics such as building a REST API and integrating your application with other technologies and applications.

"Lift Application Development Cookbook" takes you on a journey of creating secure web applications. Step-by-step instructions help you understand how things work and how various elements relate to each other.

You'll learn different ways to process a form, build dynamic HTML pages, and create an API using REST. You'll also learn how to work with relational and NoSQL databases and how to integrate your application with other technologies as well as with third-part applications such as Gmail and Facebook.

By the end of the book, you will be able to understand how Lift works and be able to build web applications using this amazing and exciting framework.