Sarwar Kamal's Blog

Launching the console The Play 2.0 console is a development console based on sbt that allows you to manage a Play application’s complete development cycle. To launch the console, enter any existing Play application directory and run the play script: $ cd / path / to / any / application $ play          Getting help Use the help play command to get basic help about the available commands: [ My first application ] $ help play   Running the server in development mode To run the current application in development mode, use the run command: [ My first application ] $ run In this mode, the server will be launched with the auto-reload feature enabled, meaning that for each request Play will check your project and recompile required sources. If needed the application will restart automatically. If there are any compilation errors you will see the result of the compilation directly in your browser: To stop th...