In this chapter, we discussed how to configure the debugging of a Play application in the IDE. We also covered how to start a Play application in a Scala console. This chapter also covered the logging API provided by the Play Framework and customizing the log format.

A lot of web applications make use of the third-party APIs either to avoid rewriting the existing code or to make it easy for users to adopt their applications. In the next chapter, we will be checking out how developers can use existing external APIs in a Play application.