Pure Scala Approach for Building Frontend and Backend Apps

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Claims a pure-Scala stack that uses Airframe RPC to expose Scala traits and case classes as RPC endpoints, serializes via airframe-codec (MessagePack/JSON), and generates clients with an sbt codegen plugin. Servers plug into Finagle (HTTP/1) or gRPC (HTTP/2) backends and Scala.js runs the frontend including a Monaco-based SQL editor and monitoring UI. Performance tests show 40–85k req/s on a laptop with gRPC multiplexing, and no Protocol Buffers required.

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1. 0:00Introduction and background
2. 3:07Why Scala for full-stack
3. 7:21Scala.js for frontend
4. 10:30Building DOM with Scala
5. 13:22Reactive programming with Rx
6. 15:27RPC challenges in Scala
7. 17:13Airframe RPC approach
8. 21:47HTTP/2 and gRPC performance
9. 24:39gRPC data format agnostic
10. 26:07Combining frontend and backend
11. 27:09Summary and resources

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