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Kotlin Blueprints

By : Ashish Belagali, Akshay Chordiya, Hardik Trivedi
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Kotlin Blueprints

By: Ashish Belagali, Akshay Chordiya, Hardik Trivedi

Overview of this book

Kotlin is a powerful language that has applications in a wide variety of fields. It is a concise, safe, interoperable, and tool-friendly language. The Android team has also announced first-class support for Kotlin, which is an added boost to the language. Kotlin’s growth is fueled through carefully designed business and technology benefits. The collection of projects demonstrates the versatility of the language and enables you to build standalone applications on your own. You’ll build comprehensive applications using the various features of Kotlin. Scale, performance, and high availability lie at the heart of the projects, and the lessons learned throughout this book. You’ll learn how to build a social media aggregator app that will help you efficiently track various feeds, develop a geospatial webservice with Kotlin and Spring Boot, build responsive web applications with Kotlin, build a REST API for a news feed reader, and build a server-side chat application with Kotlin. It also covers the various libraries and frameworks used in the projects. Through the course of building applications, you’ll not only get to grips with the various features of Kotlin, but you’ll also discover how to design and prototype professional-grade applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


Ktor enables quick development with less hassle from technological constraints, such as setting up logging, templates, dependency injection, and so on. The application code is especially concise, thanks to Kotlin's nature, which adds to its readability.

The downside with Ktor is its lack of documentation and community, which means it's difficult to start and, if you face some issues with it, then it's even more difficult because of the smaller community that exists to help resolve them. Moreover, the framework has not reached v1.0 at the time of writing. It should reach v1.0 pretty soon, though. Overall it's a great framework for building web applications instantly and completely with Kotlin.

We have successfully built our production-ready news feed application as a RESTful web service, which can be used to read the latest news with the Ktor framework while leveraging amazing features such as DSL, co-routines of Kotlin. We also saw how to write test cases in Kotlin, which are a great...