A comprehensive collection of examples, tutorials, and best practices for building modern web applications with Groovy.

This repository contains practical examples demonstrating Groovy's power in web development, including:

• Web framework integrations (Grails, Ratpack, Micronaut)
• RESTful API development
• Database integration (GORM, JDBC)
• Testing strategies
• Deployment configurations

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/groovy-web/groovy-web-examples.git
cd groovy-web-examples

# Explore examples by category
ls examples/

groovy-web-examples/
├── docs/                    # Detailed documentation
│   ├── getting-started.md
│   ├── frameworks.md
│   └── best-practices.md
├── examples/                # Code examples
│   ├── grails/
│   ├── ratpack/
│   ├── micronaut/
│   └── testing/
├── .github/                 # GitHub templates
└── README.md

• Basic CRUD: Simple create-read-update-delete operations
• REST APIs: Building RESTful services
• Domain Modeling: GORM relationships and validation
• Security: Authentication and authorization

• Async Handlers: Non-blocking request handling
• Streaming: Real-time data streaming
• Routing: Advanced routing patterns

• Microservices: Building cloud-native applications
• GraalVM: Native image compilation
• Reactive Programming: Non-blocking I/O

• Spock Framework: Specification-based testing
• Geb: Functional web testing
• Integration Tests: End-to-end testing strategies

• Getting Started - Setup and installation
• Framework Guides - Detailed framework comparisons
• Best Practices - Coding standards and patterns

• Java 8 or higher
• Groovy 3.0+
• Gradle 6.0+ (for building examples)

Each example includes its own README with specific instructions:

cd examples/grails/basic-crud
./gradlew bootRun

We welcome contributions! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

Please read CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md to understand our community standards.

• GitHub Issues: Report bugs and request features
• Discussions: Ask questions and share ideas
• Wiki: Additional documentation and tutorials

• Apache Groovy
• Grails Framework
• Ratpack
• Micronaut

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