It's easy to Get Started with Lift. The Chat app that you build demonstrates a bunch of Lift's advanced features and how easy those features are accessed.

From an MVC background

If you're coming from an MVC background (like Rails, Struts, etc.), there's a Chapter for you . The code examples are included and you can run them yourself.

Some Videos


David Pollak's Lift Basics

In this workshop you will learn how to create dynamic, interactive, secure web sites using Lift. Courses are being held at SkillsMatter in London, UK, on October 15th and December 3rd 2012.


Lift Cookbook

The Lift Cookbook is a new and growing resource for Lift developers, presenting programming solutions to a range of specific questions.


Lift Co -- Commercial Support

Commercial Support including SLAs available for Lift.


Lift turns 5

The Lift Web Framework was founded on February 26th, 2007. Happy Birthday!


Lift 2.4 Ships!

2012/01/12 The Lift team is proud to announce version 2.4 of Lift.


Scala Lift Off London 2011

Join the European Scala and Lift communities for 2 days of open spaces excellence, fun, and putting faces to names!


DPP teaches Lift Basics

at Skills Matter in London on October 12th. Please join him and learn Lift and have fun!


Scala 2.9.1 support in Lift

We are in process of building Lift against Scala 2.9.1


Lift 2.3 Ships!

2011/04/06 The Lift team is proud to announce version 2.3 of Lift.


Seven Things...

that demonstrate how Lift is different from and superior to other web frameworks


Lift Books

Entwicklung von Web-Applikationen mit Lift und Scala by Thomas Fiedler and Christoph Knabe.

Simply Lift, by David Pollak is an open source book, available for free in both PDF and HTML versions at http://simply.liftweb.net/.

Exploring Lift, by Derek Chen-Becker, Tyler Weir, and Marius Danciu is an open source book, available for free in both PDF and HTML versions at http://exploring.liftweb.net/.

Lift In Action by Tim Perrett is available in print and eBook format.

Lift Cookbook A community question and answers book, free at cookbook.liftweb.net