AutoComplete functionality using Scala, Play & ReactiveMongo

Play 2.5.x application with ReactiveMongo - reactive, asynchronous and non-blocking Scala driver for MongoDB.

This is a classic AutoComplete application, backed by a MongoDB database. It demonstrates:

• Achieving, Futures to use more idiomatic error handling.
• Accessing a MongoDB database, using ReactiveMongo.
• Replaced the embedded JS & CSS libraries with WebJars.
• Play and Scala-based template engine implementation
• Bootswatch-United with Twitter Bootstrap to improve the look and feel of the application

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Prerequisite

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• Pre Installed MongoDB if you do not have it already. You can get it from here
• Create DB autocomplete by executing $ use autocomplete
• Create collection countries by executing $ db.createCollection("countries")
• Import CSV data into countries collection

$ mongoimport --db autocomplete --collection countries --type csv --headerline --file /resources/contries.csv

• Create wildcard text indexes db.countries.createIndex({"$**": "text"})

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Deploy Instructions

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• Clone the project into your local system $ git clone git@github.com:anand-singh/playing-autocomplete.git
• To run the Play framework 2.5.x, you need JDK 8 or later
• Install Typesafe Activator if you do not have it already. You can get it from here: download
• Execute $ bin/activator clean compile to build the product
• Execute $ bin/activator run to execute the product
• playing-autocomplete should now be accessible at localhost:9000

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###References :-

• Play Framework
• ReactiveMongo
• Bootstrap
• Bootswatch-United
• WebJars