Play

Java and Scala web application framework

Getting started with Play on Mac

The recommended first step is to install a tool called sbt (Scala Build Tool); it isn’t strictly necessary, but it does have certain advantages.

On Mac, you can use:

brew install sbt

Then:

You may like to fork this github repo: https://github.com/playframework/play-java , then clone the fork, cd into the directory and run sbt

The tutorial there also recommends installing something called “Activator”, from here: https://www.lightbend.com/activator/download

That link downloads a file called: https://downloads.typesafe.com/typesafe-activator/1.3.12/typesafe-activator-1.3.12.zip
which unzips to a folder called: activator-dist-1.3.12
I was then able to run it by doing ~/Downloads/Activator/activator-dist-1.3.12/bin/activator ui from inside the github repo that I forked from https://github.com/playframework/play-java