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I'm starting to develop a web app with scala. What I don't understand is why we have a build.gradle file and a build.sbt file. There are dependencies defined in both files.
Which one should I use in what case?
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sbt : The sbt settings that describe building your application. /conf : Configuration files for your application. /project : Further build description information. /public : Where static, public assets for your application are stored. /test : Where your application's test code will be stored.
sbt is a popular tool for compiling, running, and testing Scala projects of any size. Using a build tool such as sbt (or Maven/Gradle) becomes essential once you create projects with dependencies or more than one code file.
The files are equivalent, and that is why they both declare (almost) the same dependencies.
So you can use Gradle or sbt, but you won't need to use both. If you want to use Gradle, just remove build.sbt. If you want to use sbt, just remove build.gradle. They are both present in samples and seeds so that users can choose and see how to configure Gradle/sbt for that kind of project.
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