It’s been a while coming, but this book is now really starting to hot up!

I’ve written over 75 pages in the last week putting together Chapter 13 (on single page webapps with AngularJS), and Chapter 17 (on Leveraging NoSQL from Grails where we cover off Redis, MongoDB and Neo4j). You won’t believe how much fun I’ve been having!

So what’s in the two new chapters?

Chapter 13: Single Page Web Applications

Just finished the first cut of this one today. Presently 26 pages. In here we’ll cover off:

  • All the basics of the Resources plugin to drag in your CSS/JS and dependencies
  • Working with AngularJS controllers and data binding
  • Interacting with the Hubbub RESTful services using Restangular
  • Working with non-standard Payloads while doing GET/POST/PUT/DELETE
  • Cross-controller interactions with AngularJS eventing
  • Lots of AngularJS magic (such as implementing inplace editing and UI magic)

Chapter 17: Leveraging NoSQL from Grails

Finished this one off earlier in the week. Presently 39 pages! In here we’ll cover off:

  • Setting up your own Redis server
  • Working with Redis taglibs and the service (including typical key/value useages)
  • Working with Redis Counters, SortedSets and other interesting structures
  • Setting up your own MongoDB server
  • Modelling embedded documents and their GORM interactions
  • Working with GORM/MongoDB dynamic properties
  • Querying with MongoDB GORM and native MongoDB queries
  • Using GMongo for MongoDB Map/Reduce action
  • Modelling Hubbub Social Graph in Neo4j
  • Querying Friends, and Friends of Friends with Cypher
  • Using the low level Neo4j API to traverse trees
    Wholly Dooley… I hope they don’t cut too much. You’ll go from NoSQL zero to hero!

When, Glen, When?!?!?

MEAP subscribers will get the Angular stuff in the next release (probably in the next few weeks). Really appreciate your feedback here.

Meanwhile, I’ll be circling back to update things to Grails 2.3, so by the time you get this book it will be current with the latest, hottest Grails that you know and love.

Thanks for all your patience. It will be worth the wait!

Stay incredible!

Glen.