Grails

Noun · Development

Definitions

  1. A Groovy-based web application framework built on top of Spring Boot, designed to bring convention-over-configuration and rapid development to the JVM ecosystem, inspired by Ruby on Rails.

    In plain English: A web framework for building apps quickly on the Java platform using the Groovy language, following the 'less configuration, more convention' philosophy popularized by Rails.

    Example: "Grails let us prototype the CRUD app in a day — scaffolding, ORM, and all."

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