Awesome Groovy 

Curated list of awesome groovy libraries, frameworks and resources. Inspired by many other awesome-* repositories. This awesome collection is also available on Groovy.ZEEF.com.

• Awesome Groovy
  • Build Tool and Setup
  • Concurrency
  • Database
  • Desktop App Framworks
  • HTTP
  • IDE and Editor Support
  • Testing
  • Code analysis
  • Web Frameworks
  • Transpilers
  • Static Web
  • Language Utilities
  • File System Utilities
  • File Format DSL
  • Scripting Tools
• Resources
• Contributing
• Credits

Build tools and Setup

• Gradle - A powerful build system for the JVM
• SDKMAN - The Software Development Kit Manager (Previously known as GVM)
• Lazybones - A simple project creation tool that uses packaged project templates.

IDE and Editor Support

• IntelliJ IDEA - The Most Intelligent IDE for the Java Platform
• Groovy Grails Tool Suite - Eclipse-based IDE optimized for developing, debugging and executing Groovy and Grails applications
• Groovy Web Console - The online Groovy console
• LightTable Plugin - LightTable Support
• Sublime Text 2 - Run groovy scripts from Sublime Text

Web Frameworks

• Grails - A powerful web application framework based on the Groovy language
• Gaelyk - A lightweight Groovy toolkit for Google App Engine Java
• Glide - Create awesome apps on Google App Engine in a snap
• Ratpack - A toolkit for JVM web applications
• gServ - A Groovy toolkit for creating SPAs and REST based micro-services without the need for a container (Tomcat, JBoss, etc.).
• Spring-Boot - Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that can you can "just run"

Database

• Gmongo - A Groovy wrapper to the mongodb Java driver
• Gstorm - A simple ORM for simple databases and CSV files to be used in groovy scripts
• Tayra - Incremental backup tool for MongoDB
• Groovy-liquibase - Yet Another Groovy DSL for Liquibase

Rich Application

• Griffon - Griffon is an application framework for developing desktop applications in the JVM
• GroovyFx - GroovyFX provides a Groovy binding for JavaFX 2.0.

HTTP

• Http-Builder - HTTPBuilder is the easiest way to manipulate HTTP-based resources from the JVM
• AsyncRestClient - Combine the power of RESTClient with RxGroovy for async http calls
• Groovy-wslite - Lightweight SOAP and REST webservice clients for Groovy

Testing

• Spock - The Enterprise-ready testing and specification framework.
• Geb - Very Groovy Browser Automation
• Betamax - Betamax is a tool for mocking external HTTP resources such as web services and REST APIs in your tests.

Concurrency

• GPars - The GPars concurrency and parallelism framework for the JVM
• RxGroovy - RxJava bindings for Groovy
• Vertx - Vert.x is a lightweight, high performance application platform for the JVM

Code Analysis

• CodeNarc - Static analysis tool for Groovy

Transpilers

• Grooscript - Converts your Groovy code to Javascript

Static Web

• Grain - Static Web Site Building Framework For Groovy
• Gaiden - Gaiden is a tool that makes it easy to create documentation with Markdown.

Language Utilities

• Functionalgroovy - Functional programming in Groovy
• Groovy-stream - A collection of classes to give a fluent builder for Streams (Lazy Groovy Generators)
• Flipside - Simple Groovy options library
• groovy-common-extensions - Lets you add things commonly useful to the Groovy language via the extension system

File System Utilities

• Groovy-Vfs - A DSL for Groovy on top of Apache VFS2
• Directree - A Simple DSL to create Directory Tree with Text Files

File Format DSL

• document-builder - A document builder for Groovy for PDF or Word documents.
• spreadsheet-builder - Spreadsheet builder provides convenient way how to create MS Excel OfficeOpenXML Documents (XSLX)

Scripting Tools

• sshoogr - DSL library for working with remote servers through SSH.

Resources

Official Resources

• The official groovy home - Groovy's new home
• Groovy's source - Groovy's source code mirrored on Github
• Groovy mailing lists - Note the new mailing list
• Official Documentation - the definitive source of groovy documentation

Try Groovy in Browser

• Groovy Web Console
• Groovy Playground

Groovy Code Examples

• MrHaKi's Goodness - Look out for entries titled "Groovy Goodness" , "Grails Goodness", Gradle Goodness"
• Groovy Almanac - useful code snippets
• PLEAC Groovy - Groovy is one of the 3 languages out of 32, having completed 100% of PLEAC examples.
• Langref Groovy - Covers good number of problem solutions in groovy. Help contributing more solutions

Staying up to date

• Groovy Calamari - Weekly curated publication about the Groovy Ecosystem
• Groovy Weekly - Groovy weekly newsletter
• Groovy Blogs - Interesting collections of Groovy blogs, ususally updated frequently
• Grails Diary - Particulary useful for Grails developers

Interactive Learning

• Groovy-Koans - Collection of small exercises in the form of unit tests

Blogs of core committer

• Guillaume Laforge's blog
• Cédric Champeau's blog

Contributing

Fork this repository, edit this file and send a pull request.

Using awesome.groovy script

You can use the awesome.groovy script to search awesome projects on github and generate the entry prepoulated with project name, repo url and description in markdown format. All you need to do is place it under right group in the markdown list in README.md.

Examples

to find out repos where language is groovy and whose name contain gpars and

./awesome.groovy -l groovy gpars

to find out repos by user 'kdabir' and name contains glide

./awesome.groovy -u kdabir glide

to find out repos whose name contains glide

./awesome.groovy glide

If you are lazy to download the repo, an easy way is:

groovy "https://git.io/awesome" -l groovy glide

Credits

To all the awesome-* repos out there and their aggreators like this and this.