Essential Slick by Richard Dallaway, Jonathan Ferguson, Underscore Consulting LLP is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Essential Slick is a book to get you started building application using the Slick database library. It is aimed at Scala developers who need to become productive with Slick quickly.

It follows a tutorial style and includes exercises.

You can download the PDF, EPUB, and HTML formats of this book for free from the book web page.

1. Basics

2. Selecting Data

3. Creating and Modifying Data

4. Action Combinators and Transactions

5. Data Modelling

6. Joins and Aggregates

7. Plain SQL

A. Using Different Database Products

B. Solutions to Exercises

This book uses Underscore's ebook build system.

The simplest way to build the book is to use Docker Compose:

• install Docker Compose (brew install docker-compose on OS X; or download from docker.com); and
• run go.sh (or docker-compose run book bash if go.sh doesn't work).

This will open a bash shell running inside the Docker container which contains all the dependencies to build the book. From the shell run:

• npm install; and then
• sbt.

To avoid running out of MetaSpace you'll also want to:

export JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx3g -XX:+TieredCompilation -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=256m -XX:+UseNUMA -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled"

Within sbt you can issue the commands pdf, html, epub, or all to build the desired format(s) of the book. Targets are placed in the dist directory.

Essential Slick uses tut to check the Scala code on the book. To avoid running out of MetaSpace you'll also want to:

export JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx3g -XX:+TieredCompilation -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=256m -XX:+UseNUMA -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled"

The source files are in src/pages. The tut converted sources are output to target/pages.