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9 Tips to Planning and Building Maintainable Grails UIs

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How can we build user interfaces using GSP that are manageable and easy to update? Many of the books on Grails focus on the technology available in Grails, but very few give rules and techniques to make GSPs manageable.

Grails templates and the out-of-the-box functionality is great. But once you start trying to integrate layouts and designs for real world websites, you'll find that bad coding practices can quickly lead to a chaotic and unmaintainable mess of spaghetti code.

In this post, I want to share some tips, lessons and ideas I have learned from projects worked in the last year and a half of Grails UI development.

Posted July 31, 2009 by email