Gradle Essentials: Master the fundamentals of Gradle using real-world projects with this quick and easy-to-read guide (Community Experience Distilled) - Softcover

Kunal Dabir; Abhinandan Maheshwari

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783982365 ISBN 13: 9781783982363

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Master the fundamentals of Gradle using real-world projects with this quick and easy-to-read guide

About This Book

• Write beautiful build scripts for various types of projects effortlessly
• Become more productive by harnessing the power and elegance of the Gradle DSL
• Learn how to use Gradle quickly and effectively with this step-by-step guide

Who This Book Is For

This book is for Java and other JVM-based language developers who want to use Gradle or are already using Gradle on their projects.

No prior knowledge of Gradle is required, but some familiarity with build-related terminologies and an understanding of the Java language would help.

What You Will Learn

• Master the Gradle DSL by identifying the building blocks
• Learn just enough Groovy for Gradle
• Set up tests and reports for your projects to make them CI ready
• Create library, stand-alone, and web projects
• Craft multi-module projects quickly and efficiently
• Migrate existing projects to a modern Gradle build
• Extract common build logic into plugins
• Write builds for languages like Java, Groovy, and Scala

In Detail

Gradle is an advanced and modern build automation tool. It inherits the best elements of the past generation of build tools, but it also differs and innovates to bring terseness, elegance, simplicity, and the flexibility to build.

Right from installing Gradle and writing your first build file to creating a fully-fledged multi-module project build, this book will guide you through its topics in a step-by-step fashion.

You will get your hands dirty with a simple Java project built with Gradle and go on to build web applications that are run with Jetty or Tomcat. We take a unique approach towards explaining the DSL using the Gradle API, which makes the DSL more accessible and intuitive.

All in all, this book is a concise guide to help you decipher the Gradle build files, covering the essential topics that are most useful in real-world projects. With every chapter, you will learn a new topic and be able to readily implement your build files.

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About the Authors

Kunal Dabir has over 10 years of experience working with clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to startups. Currently, he works as a Lead Consultant at ThoughtWorks. He is a Java user group's co-organizer and speaks at various meet-ups and conferences. While he is always eager to learn a new language, he usually codes in languages such as Groovy, Scala, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, and Java. He frequently contributes to open source projects and also hosts his own projects on GitHub. He has always been passionate about automating and scripting. From there, he got a knack for build tools. Apart from Gradle, he has spent a fair amount of time writing build scripts with tools such as Ant, Maven, Grunt, and Gulp. He was introduced to Gradle in 2011 while using Gaelyk. Since then, Gradle has become his tool of choice for build automation. He can be found on Twitter and GitHub as @kdabir.

Abhinandan is a Java guy with extensive experience in software design, architecture, and deployment and automation framework. He is passionate about providing solutions for different business needs. His other passions include hiking, reading and travelling. You can contact him at designationtraveller@yahoo.com Like a film cannot be made with just actors and directors, it requires lots of different team member's help, who supports at different stages till the movie get published, in the similar way book is not just effort of one person or the author. It requires lots of support from different people at different stages without which it would not be possible to put the thoughts on the paper and made it available to audience First and foremost, I would like to thank my family for all the support they gave me throughout this book. They never complained about the weekends, vacations which I compromised while working on the book. I would like to express my gratitude towards the PactPub publisher team (Parita, Purav, Rashmi), who provided support, from the initiation of the idea till the publication of the book. I appreciate that they believed in me and provided me the opportunity to become to become the coauthor of this book. I would like to thank the reviewers who helped me to improve the quality of the book. Thanks to Mainak, for the quality inputs and comment, which helped to make this book complete. I could not have done it without you.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783982365
• ISBN 13: 9781783982363
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176