Welcome to the fourth blog of 52-technologies-in-2016 blog series. Today, we will get started with Slick. Slick(Scala Language-Integrated Connection Kit) is a powerful Scala library to work with relational databases. Slick is not an ORM library. It bases its implementation on functional programming and does not hide database behind an ORM layer giving you full control over when a database access should happen. It allows you to work with database just like you are working with Scala collections. Slick API is asynchronous in nature making it suitable for building reactive applications. Although Slick itself is asynchronous in nature, internally it uses JDBC which is a synchronous API. Slick is a big topic so today we will only cover basics. I will write couple more parts to this blog.
The core idea behind Slick is that as a developer you don’t have to write SQL queries. Instead, library will create SQL for you if you build the query using the constructs provided by the library.
You can read full blog here https://github.com/shekhargulati/52-technologies-in-2016/blob/master/04-slick/README.md
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Really nice approach to slick basics! I wrote a getting started tutorial myself also. Hope it can be useful for someone who’s struggling 🙂 http://pedrorijo.com/blog/play-slick/ (demo code at https://github.com/pedrorijo91/play-slick3-steps)