How to create an Eclipse Scala project in typesafe activator?

Question

I have installed typesafe activator, created a project, added my own Scala classes and successfully compiled and run my code.

Now I was looking for a function to eclipsify my project using activator (similarly to what can be done with play) but I cannot find anything neither on the typesafe website nor by searching the internet.

Does activator provide such a function?

Answer 1

You need to build your project once so that it downloads the required sbt plugins.

Easy way to build is using the activator ui. Then in the "Code" tab click on "Build Eclipse project" or activator eclipse from the command line.

Answer 2

You can do this from the Activator Web UI. After selecting/opening your project, in the "Your application is ready" pop-up select "Code view & Open in IDE". In the following code view there's the "Browse code" column.. to the right of the "Browse code" headline, there's a little gear wheel. That will open a menu that let's you open the project outside of Activator:

Answer 3

cd to the directory then type activator eclipse

For more options see here: https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.3.x/IDE

Answer 4

in SBT type eclipse, in activator select code/edit/eclipse