Before the tutorial 

You should :

• read 
  • Play Documentation : ScalaActions
  • Play Documentation : ScalaForms
  • Play Documentation : ScalaJsonAutomated
• have  basic understanding of scala future transformation (map, flatMap)
• have basic understanding of scala implicits
• clone play2.5-skeleton-compileDI. This example uses compile-time dependency injection. You can use run-time DI if you feel confident about it.
• download and install mongodb (brew install mongo for mac or check the video)
• download and install mongochef

Tutorial 

After the tutorial

You should be able to :

• create a compile-time DI play project 
• create a form in a play template
• understand that a simple post in play requires two endpoints.
  • one to serve the form  
  • one to handle the post request
• create a  model class - map a play Form to a case class - mapping
• save a case class in Mongo DB 

Resources

Play2-reactivemongo doucumentation

Be careful: we are using play2-reactivemongo  plugin and not reactivemongo driver

Bonus

• Do you know the difference between Action and Action.async ? 
• Find out how to return different result statuses pages. 
• check 
  • Play Results documentation
  • Play JSON basics
  • Play JSON with HTTP
  • Play JSON Reads/Writes/Format Combinators