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Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook

By : Samuel Urbanowicz
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Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook

By: Samuel Urbanowicz

Overview of this book

For developers who prefer a more simplistic approach to coding, Kotlin has emerged as a valuable solution for effective software development. The Kotlin standard library provides vital tools that make day-to-day Kotlin programming easier. This library features core attributes of the language, such as algorithmic problems, design patterns, data processing, and working with files and data streams. With a recipe-based approach, this book features coding solutions that you can readily execute. Through the book, you’ll encounter a variety of interesting topics related to data processing, I/O operations, and collections transformation. You’ll get started by exploring the most effective design patterns in Kotlin and understand how coroutines add new features to JavaScript. As you progress, you'll learn how to implement clean, reusable functions and scalable interfaces containing default implementations. Toward the concluding chapters, you’ll discover recipes on functional programming concepts, such as lambdas, monads, functors, and Kotlin scoping functions, which will help you tackle a range of real-life coding problems. By the end of this book, you'll be equipped with the expertise you need to address a range of challenges that Kotlin developers face by implementing easy-to-follow solutions.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Kotlin and JavaScript interoperability

In the following recipe, we are going to configure and implement a sample web app project in order to explore how Kotlin can be compiled to JavaScript. We are going to implement a simple web app that will open an alert dialog when the app starts. The following example is going to present a way of combining Kotlin and JavaScript code together and configuring a JavaScript compilation with the Gradle build script.

Getting ready

In order to set up the project to compile Kotlin files into JavaScript, we need to add the following properties to the module-level Gradle build script. First, we need to apply the Kotlin2Js plugin. We can do it with the following declaration:

apply plugin: &quot...