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Groovy Guide

Groovy Guide

A guide covering the Groovy programming language including the applications and tools that will make you a better and more efficient Groovy developer.

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Groovy Learning Resources

Apache Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static-typing and static compilation capabilities, for the Java platform aimed at improving developer productivity thanks to a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax.

Introducing Groovy from Oracle

Learning Groovy

The Complete Apache Groovy Developer Course on Udemy

Groovy Fundamentals from Pluralsight

Getting Started with Groovy from Pluralsight

Fluently Groovy tutorial from IBM

Groovy language Style guide

Groovy Tools, Libraries, and Frameworks

Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.

Code Server is a tool that allows you to run VS Code on any machine anywhere and access it in the browser.

Language Server Protocol (LSP) is a tool that defines the protocol used between an editor or IDE and a language server that provides language features like auto complete, go to definition, find all references etc.

IntelliJ IDEA is an IDE for Java, but it also understands and provides intelligent coding assistance for a large variety of other languages such as Kotlin, SQL, JPQL, HTML, JavaScript, etc., even if the language expression is injected into a String literal in your Java code.

Gradle is a build automation tool that supports multi-language development. If you're building, testing, publishing, and deploying software on any platform, Gradle offers a flexible model that can support the entire development lifecycle from compiling and packaging code to publishing web sites. Gradle is designed to support build automation across multiple languages and platforms including Java, Scala, Android, C/C++, Swift, and Groovy, and is closely integrated with development tools and continuous integration servers including Eclipse, IntelliJ, and Jenkins.

Groovy Language Server is a language server protocol for Groovy.

Apache Camel is an Open Source integration framework that supports Groovy along with other Scripting Languages to allow an Expression or Predicate to be used in the DSL or Xml Configuration.

Gradle Kotlin DSL converter is a tool that converts from Groovy to Kotlin DSL for Gradle in Android Studio.

Rest-assured is a Java DSL for easy testing of REST services.

Spock is a BDD-style developer testing and specification framework for Java and Groovy applications.

Micronaut is a modern, JVM-based, full stack Java framework designed for building modular, easily testable JVM applications with support for Java, Kotlin and the Groovy language.

Nextflow is a bioinformatics workflow manager that enables the development of portable and reproducible workflows. It supports deploying workflows on a variety of execution platforms including local, HPC schedulers, AWS Batch, Google Cloud Life Sciences, and Kubernetes. Additionally, it provides support for manage your workflow dependencies through built-in support for Conda, Docker, Singularity, and Modules.

Dex : The Data Explorer is a data visualization tool written in Java/Groovy/JavaFX capable of powerful ETL and publishing web visualizations.

Groovy-Eclipse is a project that provides Eclipse and Maven tooling support for the Apache Groovy programming language.

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License

Distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Public License.