Grails 6 Tutorials — GroovyGrails.in

Introduction to Grails 6

Grails 6 builds on Groovy and Micronaut to provide a fast, convention-driven web framework on the JVM. It emphasizes:

• Convention over configuration
• Productivity with GORM and code generation
• Fast startup and DI courtesy of Micronaut

Install

Recommended: SDKMAN

curl -s "https://get.sdkman.io" | bash
source "$HOME/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh"
sdk install grails 6.0.0

Create a new app

grails create-app bookstore --profile web
cd bookstore
grails run-app

Project layout

Key folders:

• grails-app/domain — domain classes
• grails-app/controllers — controllers
• grails-app/views — GSP & JSON views
• src/main/groovy — plain Groovy classes