Does my DIV look big in this? Refactoring Your Grails View Tier

There's a lot happening in the view tier these days: layout frameworks, UI frameworks, animation, and lots more. Add Javascript and Ajax to the mix, and your view tier can quickly become an unmaintainable mess. To the rescue comes the new Grails resources infrastructure, less.css, backbone.js, twitter bootstrap, and plenty more! So come along!

This talk presents a practical refactoring of a tangled Grails UI, while exploring strategies for simplifying your view layer giving maximum flexibility and performance. Included in the talk is a discussion of the new Grails resources infrastructure, Less.css framework, Twitter Bootstrap, Backbone.js, Form & Navigation strategies and much more!