Most common grails plugins

Question

One of the features which makes Grails wonderful is the plugin architecture. Over the years, it has fostered a large community of developers and users that are continuously enhancing the value which Grails provides. I hardly ever find myself working on a project which doesn't have a handful of 3rd party and/or custom plugins.

What are some of your "go to" plugins? (e.g. the plugins which you find yourself almost always adding to your projects) What makes those plugins soo useful?

Answer 1

I would say in my case:

1. Database migration to have more control of how the database is created/updated, etc.
2. Spring Security for authentication and authorization
3. JQuery and JQuery UI because JQuery rocks
4. Spring Cache to manage page caching
5. Joda-time to handle dates more easily
6. Codenarc to help keep coding standards and coding rules

There are other that I think are great but they depend more on your needs like:

• Searchable
• Rest
• jms
• Datasources