Awesome Scala Native – Massive Collection of Resources

Contents

• Tutorials and Examples
• Build Tools
• Functional Programming
• Unit Tests
• Bindings
• File Formats and Parsers
• Databases
• Web Development
• Logging
• Console
• Robotics
• Programs
• Infrastructure

Tutorials and Examples

• Giter8 template for a minimal Scala Native project – Official Giter8 template for a minimal Scala Native project.
• Hands on Scala Native – Tutorial for implementing a bandwidth monitor with Ncurses.
• Starter for Scala Native – Scala Native project that links to a custom C library.
• Building C code using sbt-jni – Example for compiling C code in a Scala Native project using sbt-jni.
• Example project with external dependencies – Example project that uses external dependencies to generate HTML and run a test suite.
• Starter for Gtk+ Projects – Giter8 template for Scala Native GUI projects using Gtk+.

Build Tools

• sbt – Scala’s standard build tool.
• Mill – Build tool striving for simplicity, inspired by Bazel.
• Bloop – Scala build server and command-line tool for fast developer workflows.
• Seed – Build tool based on Bloop. Focuses on user experience and cross-platform builds, inspired by Cargo.

Functional Programming

• Shapeless – Library for generic programming.
• Squants – DSL for quantities, units of measure and dimensional analysis.
• scalaz – Type classes and instances for data structures.
• nobox – Immutable primitive array wrapper without boxing.
• PPrint – Pretty-print values and types.
• SourceCode – Implicits providing meta data similar to __LINE__ in C.
• reactify – Functional Reactive Programming framework for Scala.
• chimney – Boilerplate-free data transformations.
• Quicklens – Modify deeply nested case class fields.

Unit Tests

• µTest – Library for unit tests.
• minitest – Lightweight testing library.
• scalaprops – Library for property-based testing.
  • scalaprops-shapeless – Generation of arbitrary ADT instances.
  • scalaprops-cross-example – Cross-platform example.
• ScalaCheck – Property-based testing for Scala.
• ScalaTest – Testing library.
• specs2 – Software Specifications for Scala.
• Makeshift – Library for unit tests.
• MUnit – Scala testing library with actionable errors and extensible APIs.

Bindings

• cmark – Bindings for the cmark CommonMark parser library.
• libuv – Bindings for libuv, a library for asynchronous I/O.
• SDL2 and OpenGL – Bindings for the graphical frameworks SDL2 and OpenGL.
• Cocoa – Bindings for the macOS graphical framework Cocoa.
• GNU Scientific Library – Bindings for GNU Scientific Library (GSL).
• BLAS – Bindings for BLAS, a library for Linear Algebra.
• Gtk+ – Bindings for the GTK+ graphical toolkit.
• libsoup – Bindings for the libsoup HTTP client/server library.
• libui – GUI framework based on libui.
• GStreamer – Bindings for the GStreamer multimedia framework.
• Qt – Bindings for Qt.

File Formats and Parsers

• msgpack4z – Implementation of MessagePack, a binary serialisation format.
• FastParse – Library for defining and running parsers.
• scalatags – HTML/XML construction and rendering.
• Pine – HTML/XML parsing, manipulation and rendering.
• scala-json – JSON parser.
• uJson – fast, flexible and intuitive JSON for Scala
• toml-scala – TOML parser with codec derivation.
• argonaut – Purely functional JSON parser and library.
• ScalaPB – Protocol Buffer compiler for Scala.
  • scalapb-argonaut – JSON and Protocol Buffer converters for ScalaPB based on Argonaut.
• sconfig – HOCON parser.

Databases

• JDBC – Port of the database access layer JDBC to Scala Native.
• SQLite4S – Port of the Java library Sqlite4java. Includes bindings for the SQLite native library.

Web Development

• Trail – Routing library.
• sttp – HTTP Client library.
• snunit – Scala Native HTTP server based on NGINX Unit.

Concurrency

• scala-native-loop – Event loop and async-oriented IO for Scala Native
• castor – Lightweight, typed Actor library for Scala.

Logging

• scribe – Fast and simple logging library.
• slogging – Typesafe-logging and SLF4J-compatible logging library based on macros.

Console

• fansi – Library for creating ANSI-coloured strings.
• scopt – Command-line argument parser.
• scala-optparse-applicative – Port of Haskell’s CLI argument parsing library optparse-applicative.
• scallop – A simple Scala CLI parsing library.

Robotics

• Potassium – Framework for writing robot software.
• WPILib – Reimplementation of the FIRST Robotics WPILib libraries.

Programs

• sglgears – Port of GL gears.c.
• k8s-cli – CLI tools to generate Kubernetes resources for Akka, Play Framework and Lagom-based applications.
• Coursier – Coursier’s bootstrap command generates native launchers.
• fractals – A self-similar fractal generator with basic animation support.

Infrastructure

• Seed Docker image – Docker image for cross-platform builds with Seed.
• scala-native-sbt-docker – Docker image for Scala Native and sbt.