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§Play modules

Play uses public modules to augment built-in functionality.

To create your own public module or to migrate from a play.api.Plugin, please see ScalaPlayModules or JavaPlayModules.

§API hosting

§swagger-play

• Website: https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-play
• Short description: Generate a Swagger API spec from your Play routes file and Swagger annotations

§iheartradio/play-swagger

• Website: https://github.com/iheartradio/play-swagger
• Short description: Write a Swagger spec in your routes file

§zalando/play-swagger

• Website: https://github.com/zalando/play-swagger
• Short description: Generate Play code from a Swagger spec

§mohiva/swagger-codegen-play-scala

• Website: https://github.com/mohiva/swagger-codegen-play-scala
• Short description: Swagger client generator which is based on the PlayWS library

§Assets

§play2-sprites

• Website: https://github.com/koofr/play2-sprites/
• Short description: play2-sprites is an sbt plugin that generates sprites from images.

§Sass Plugin

• Website: https://github.com/jlitola/play-sass
• Short description: Asset handling for Sass files

§Typescript Plugin

• Website: https://github.com/ArpNetworking/sbt-typescript
• Short description: A plugin for SBT that uses sbt-web to compile typescript resources

§play-webpack Plugin

• Website: https://github.com/BowlingX/play-webpack
• Short description: A plugin for SBT to handle webpack generated assets and library to render Javascript on the server with Java’s nashorn engine.

§Authentication (Login & Registration) and Authorization (Restricted Access)

§Silhouette (Scala)

• Website: https://www.silhouette.rocks/
• Documentation: https://www.silhouette.rocks/docs/
• Short description: An authentication library that supports several authentication methods, including OAuth1, OAuth2, OpenID, CAS, Credentials, Basic Authentication, Two Factor Authentication or custom authentication schemes.

§Deadbolt 2 Plugin

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/schaloner/deadbolt-2
• Short description: Deadbolt is an authorization mechanism for defining access rights to certain controller methods or parts of a view using a simple AND/OR/NOT syntax

§Play-pac4j (Java and Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/pac4j/play-pac4j
• Documentation: https://github.com/pac4j/play-pac4j/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: Play client in Scala and Java which supports OAuth/CAS/OpenID/HTTP authentication and user profile retrieval

§Authentication and Authorization module (Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/t2v/play20-auth
• Documentation(en): https://github.com/t2v/play20-auth/blob/master/README.md
• Documentation(ja): https://github.com/t2v/play20-auth/blob/master/README.ja.md
• Short description This module provides an authentication and authorization way

§Play! Authenticate (Java)

• Website: https://joscha.github.io/play-authenticate/
• Documentation: https://github.com/joscha/play-authenticate/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: A highly customizable authentication module for Play

§SecureSocial (Java and Scala)

• Website: http://securesocial.ws/
• Short description: An authentication module supporting OAuth, OAuth2, OpenID, Username/Password and custom authentication schemes.

§Datastore

§Flyway plugin

• Website: https://github.com/flyway/flyway-play
• Documentation: https://github.com/flyway/flyway-play/blob/master/README.md
• Short Description: Supports database migration with Flyway.

§MongoDB Jongo Plugin (Java)

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/alexanderjarvis/play-jongo
• Short description: Provides managed MongoDB access and object mapping using Jongo

§MongoDB Morphia Plugin (Java)

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/morellik/play-morphia
• Short description: Provides managed MongoDB access and object mapping using Morphia

§MongoDB ReactiveMongo Plugin (Scala)

• Website (docs, sample): http://reactivemongo.org/releases/0.11/documentation/tutorial/play2.html
• Short description: Provides a Play 2.x module for ReactiveMongo, asynchronous and reactive driver for MongoDB.

§Play-Hippo

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/jbloemendal/play-hippo
• Short description: Provides a Play 2.x module for Hippo CMS.

§Play-Slick

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/playframework/play-slick
• Short description: This plugin makes Slick a first-class citizen of Play.

§Redis Plugin (Java and Scala)

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins
• Short description: Provides a redis based cache implementation, also lets you use Redis specific APIs

§ScalikeJDBC Plugin (Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/scalikejdbc/scalikejdbc-play-support
• Short description: Provides yet another database access API for Play

§Redis Cache Plugin (Java and Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/KarelCemus/play-redis
• Short description: Provides both blocking and asynchronous redis based cache implementation. It implements common Play’s CacheApi for both Java and Scala plus provides a few more Scala APIs implementing various Redis commands including the support of collections.

§Deployment

§WAR Module

• Website: https://github.com/dlecan/play2-war-plugin
• Documentation: https://github.com/dlecan/play2-war-plugin/blob/develop/README.md
• Short description: Allow to package Play! 2.x applications into standard WAR packages.

§Page Rendering

§Play Pagelets

• Website: https://github.com/splink/pagelets
• Short Description: A Module for the Play Framework to build resilient and modular Play applications in an elegant and concise manner.
• Seed project: https://github.com/splink/pagelets-seed

§Localization

§FolderMessages plugin

• Website: https://github.com/germanosin/play-foldermessages
• Short Description: Allows you to split localization messages files into separate manageable files.

§JsMessages

• Website: https://github.com/julienrf/play-jsmessages
• Short description: Allows to compute localized messages on client side.

§Messages Compiler Plugin (Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/tegonal/play-messagescompiler
• Documentation: https://github.com/tegonal/play-messagescompiler/blob/master/readme.md
• Short description: Provides type safety for the project’s messages.

§Play I18n HOCON

• Website: https://marcospereira.github.io/play-i18n-hocon/
• Documentation: https://marcospereira.github.io/play-i18n-hocon/
• Short description: A Playframework module to use HOCON for i18n instead of Java Properties

§Performance

§Google’s HTML Compressor (Java and Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/mohiva/play-html-compressor
• Documentation: https://github.com/mohiva/play-html-compressor/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: Google’s HTML Compressor for Play 2.

§Memcached Plugin

• Website: https://github.com/mumoshu/play2-memcached
• Short description: Provides a memcached based cache implementation

§Task Schedulers

§Akka Quartz Scheduler

• Website: https://github.com/enragedginger/akka-quartz-scheduler
• Documentation: https://github.com/enragedginger/akka-quartz-scheduler/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: Quartz Extension and utilities for cron-style scheduling in Akka

§play-akkjobs

• Website: https://github.com/tuxBurner/play-akkjobs
• Documentation: https://github.com/tuxBurner/play-akkjobs/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: A simple Play 2.5 module, which allows you to manage jobs

§Settings

§Remote Configuration

• Website: https://github.com/play-rconf
• Short description: Loads and apply configuration items (keys & files) from remote providers like etcd, consul, DynamoDB…

§Templates and View

§Google Closure Template Plugin

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/gawkermedia/play2-closure
• Short description: Provides support for Google Closure Templates

§HTML5 Tags module (Java and Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/loicdescotte/Play2-HTML5Tags
• Documentation: https://github.com/loicdescotte/Play2-HTML5Tags/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: These tags add client side validation capabilities, based on model constraints (e.g required, email pattern, max|min length…) and specific input fields (date, telephone number, url…) to Play templates

§Scalate

• Website: https://github.com/scalate/play-scalate
• Documentation: https://scalate.github.io/scalate/documentation/index.html
• Short description: Alternatives to Twirl HTML template support for Jade (like Haml), Mustache, Scaml (also like Haml), SSP (like Velocity), and Scuery (CSS3 selector language)

§PDF module (Java)

• Website: https://github.com/innoveit/play2-pdf
• Documentation: https://github.com/innoveit/play2-pdf/blob/master/README.md
• Short description Generate PDF output from HTML templates

§PlayFOP (Java and Scala)

• Website (live demo, user guide, other docs): https://www.dmanchester.com/playfop
• Repository: https://github.com/dmanchester/playfop
• Short description: A library for creating PDFs, images, and other types of output in Play applications. Accepts XSL-FO that an application has generated and processes it with Apache FOP.

§Play-Bootstrap (Java and Scala)

• Website: https://adrianhurt.github.io/play-bootstrap/
• Repository: https://github.com/adrianhurt/play-bootstrap
• Short description: A library for Bootstrap that gives you an out-of-the-box solution with a set of input helpers and field constructors.

§Thymeleaf module (Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/dmitraver/scala-play-thymeleaf-plugin
• Documentation: https://github.com/dmitraver/scala-play-thymeleaf-plugin/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: Allows to use Thymeleaf template engine as an alternative
  to Twirl

§Handlebars templates (Java and Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/andriykuba/play-handlebars
• Documentation: https://github.com/andriykuba/play-handlebars/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: Handlebars templates based on Java port of handlebars with special handlers for Play Framework.

§Utilities

§Emailer Plugin (Java and Scala)

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/playframework/play-mailer
• Short description: Provides an emailer based on apache commons-email

§Geolocation (Java)

• Website: https://edulify.github.io/play-geolocation-module.edulify.com/
• Documentation: https://github.com/edulify/play-geolocation-module.edulify.com/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: Module to retrieve Geolocation data based on IP.

§JSONP filter

• Website: https://github.com/julienrf/play-jsonp-filter
• Short description: Enables JSONP on your existing HTTP API.

§Sitemap Generator (Java)

• Website: https://edulify.github.io/play-sitemap-module.edulify.com/
• Documentation: https://github.com/edulify/play-sitemap-module.edulify.com/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: Automatic sitemaps generator for Play

§play-guard (Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/sief/play-guard/
• Documentation: https://github.com/sief/play-guard/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: Play2 module for blocking and throttling abusive requests

§Cloud services

§Amazon SES module (Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/Rhinofly/play-mailer
• Documentation: https://github.com/Rhinofly/play-mailer/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: SES (Simple Email Service) API wrapper for Play

§Amazon S3 module (Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/Rhinofly/play-s3
• Documentation: https://github.com/Rhinofly/play-s3/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: S3 (Simple Storage Service) API wrapper for Play

§Benji (Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/zengularity/benji
• Documentation: https://github.com/zengularity/benji/tree/master/examples
• Short description: A reactive module for the Benji library, providing an Object storage DSL (AWS/Ceph S3, Google Cloud Storage).

§Pusher

• Website: https://pusher.com/
• Documentation: https://github.com/tindr/Play2Pusher
• Short description: Easily interact with the Pusher Service within your Play application.

§Push Notifications module (Java)

• Website: https://github.com/splendidbits/play-pushservices
• Documentation: https://github.com/splendidbits/play-pushservices/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: A stupid-simple module for creating, batching, queuing and sending push notifications.