I second this. In general I find the getting started guide very helpful.
It explains a lot of key concepts step by step. I'd just like to mention a
few things to be considered for future improvements:
1. it's nice to have the default menus in the sample to do project
but it looks like a little magic to me when I read the guide. If would
be great to explain a little bit how the menu works and what are
the options if you don't want the menu there, or ways to customize
an application in the context of how Lift works. This is usually not
a problem for page central frameworks such as Stripes, or page/component
central frameworks such as Wicket.
2. it'd be also very helpful to maybe briefly describe recommended ways
to do lift development with tools such as sbt, JRebel and eclipse, or other
IDEs. The tools and setups could be rather dynamic. I think the web page
is a better place for these things than the book. If not in the getting started
guide, a separate FAQ or a link to a separate page from the getting started
guide would also do.
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:37 PM, The Trav the.t...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, so I'm trying out the lift framework, went through the guide
without too much trouble. Had a few points that threw me a bit.
The biggest one is probably having a snippet named TD and a model
named ToDo.
It seems to me like it's trying to work around namespace collisions
and/or potential confusion over namespaces, I think it would probably
be a better idea to address that explicitly.
What do people generally do for naming snippets? Is naming them after
the Model the exception rather than the rule?
Another thing that got me was that it didn't address adding new pages
past index.html which strikes me as somewhat incomplete... After
reading the getting started guide, I feel I'm going to have to find
another document or two (or three) before I can do any meaningful work
with the framework.
Other than those two suggestions I found it a pretty good
introduction, the framework is definitely pretty neat, and I like the
mvn integration for getting started, very handy
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