The intention of this project is to serve as a starter template project for Lift'ers that wish to get a quick start using Lift with the front-end toolkit Twitter Bootstrap.
The Twitter Bootstrap toolkit is provided as a Lift module by the FoBo - Lift Module making maintenance, upgrade and fall-back quick and easy (typically a one liner change in lift boot class of the BootstrapXXX option).
One of Lift's many great features is it's clean and flexible templating system. For convenience and to give some styling to Lift and it's templates Lift comes by default, at this writing, bundled with blueprint as hooked up CSS framework, here you will see blueprint replaced by another very popular and feature rich toolkit.
Improvements, contributions and suggestions are welcome! Please see the Contribution Document. You can also leave a issue report or drop a question/suggestion to my priv. e-mail or on Lift's mailing list
best regards Peter Petersson
The only prerequisites for running this Lift example is that you have Git and Java installed and configured on the target computer. You don't need to use it but the project also includes Eclipse, IDEA and ENSIME plug-in for browsing and following/working with the code, see the [Scala IDE Support] section bellow.
- If you wish you can fetch the FoBo module and build it yourself but as of FoBo >= v0.5.0 it will be fetched for you.
If you fetched the FoBo module follow the instructions at FoBo - Lift Front-End Toolkit Module. Basically this step involves a one liner command for local publish of the FoBo module.
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Get the examples
git clone git@github.com:karma4u101/Templating-With-Twitter-Bootstrap.git cd Templating-With-Twitter-Bootstrap
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Update & Run Jetty
There is also a sbt.bat for windows users.
./sbt update ~container:start
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Launch Your Browser
###Database backend
For demonstration purpose and easy setup this example uses a in memory database.
###Eclipse
Sbteclipse provides SBT command to create Eclipse project files
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Usage
project$ ./sbt
eclipse
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In eclipse do:
File ==> Import... Select General ==> Existing Project into Workspace Use "Brows" to look up the project root ....
###Others
There is also support for IDEA and ENSIME ... Note: Can someone with insite in how to use thouse modules please contribute a updat to this document.
(*) This is a unofficial Lift user powered basic Lift assembly which means it is a work based on the sound foundation of Lift and done by a developer who uses Lift for development ;), sharing it with others.