2.2. Your first Lift application

Throughout the course of the next few chapters, you’ll be building an auction-style application. The next chapter discusses in detail the application’s functionality, so for the moment we’ll focus on the fundamental building blocks that form the basis of any Lift project. This will involve creating an empty SBT project and then populating that with the configuration required to run a Lift application. This will give you a fully functioning (albeit very basic) Lift application that you can take forward to subsequent chapters. You’ll also be able to use it as a guide for building your own applications, both in terms of the steps used to create the project and in terms of the interaction within the SBT shell.

The next section will walk you through the commands and options involved in creating a new SBT project and also introduce a Lift community tool called Lifty (http://lifty.github.com/Lifty/), which you can use to speed the setup of new projects. With the project structure in place, the subsequent two sections will discuss the various components of the default Lift application and then demonstrate how to boot the built-in web server so you can interact with the application on your local computer.