Minimal Play 2.3 Project

Get started with the Play Framework 2.3 with just 4 files and no Typesafe Activator:

.
├── app
│   └── controllers
│       └── Application.scala
├── build.sbt
├── conf
│   └── routes
├── project
│   └── plugins.sbt
└── test

Start with plugins.sbt:

addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.play" % "sbt-plugin" % "2.3.9")

Then build.sbt:

name := "play-app"

version := "1.0.0-SNAPSHOT"

lazy val root = (project in file(".")).enablePlugins(PlayScala)

Then Application.scala:

package controllers

import play.api.mvc._

object Application extends Controller {
  def index = Action {
    Ok("It works!")
  }
}

And finally the routes file:

GET  /  controllers.Application.index

At version 2.3.x, the PlayScala plugin still includes quite a few dependencies that you might not actually want. Including, but not limited to, specs2 (I prefer ScalaTest).

Oh and whilst completely optional, here is my .gitignore file:

logs
project/project
project/target
target
tmp
dist
.cache