ktor
Framework for quickly creating connected applications in Kotlin with minimal effort (by ktorio)
vaadin-on-kotlin
Writing full-stack statically-typed web apps on JVM at its simplest (by mvysny)
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| 49 | 2 | |
| 12,280 | 182 | |
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| 9.4 | 8.7 | |
| 7 days ago | 24 days ago | |
| Kotlin | Kotlin | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ktor
Posts with mentions or reviews of ktor.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-25.
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Kotlin Routing - routing everything
In paralel Jetbrains has created a lot of KMP frameworks that are awesome. One of them is Ktor that helps "create asynchronous client and server applications."
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Creating a Ktor Server with Gradle and SDKMAN!: A Step-by-Step Guide
Ktor, a powerful web framework built with Kotlin, offers a lightweight and flexible solution for building web applications. In this article, we will guide you through the process of creating a Ktor project manually using Gradle and SDKMAN!. By following the steps below, you'll have a basic Ktor project up and running in no time.
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Spring MVC vs Django vs RoR vs some Kotlin Framework?
take a look at http4k and ktor for Kotlin specific frameworks Spring has first class support for Kotlin e.g. the following will give you reactive HTTP endpoints when using spring-webflux (this is what is use at work):
- Your recommendations for backend?
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What are good examples of well written code in Kotlin (e.g HTTP4K)
Ktor (Microservices framework by JetBrains)
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Akka-HTTP in android
For Android you should use a more mobile friendly framework like Retrofit or if you use Kotlin you can use the multi-platform Ktor library with it's client module
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Anyone here who uses compose-multiplatform for desktop apps, what’s your feedback?
And last but not least, Ktor Client as our HTTP client. https://ktor.io/ It's a pretty amazing http client library and integrates well with Kotlinx serialization and Coroutines.
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Which JVM Language Would You Choose for a New Server-Side Project?
Kotlin is going to be great with almost every single JVM server. Spring works well with Kotlin, and is directly supported, but spring is also massive, very bloated. I recommend looking at https://github.com/ktorio/ktor which continues to serve all of my needs very well, integrates fantastically with Kotlin coroutines, and has very fast startup time and very good performance.
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Exposed RSQL Search Implementation
For the sake of the test, we use Ktor - the easiest way to do so is to use initializer.
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Learning materials for Spring Boot and/or Quarkus
I know you are looking for Spring Boot and/or Quarkus, but have you tried ktor. Just curios if you had a particular reason for choosing the other 2. Disclaimer: I haven't used ktor.
vaadin-on-kotlin
Posts with mentions or reviews of vaadin-on-kotlin.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-17.
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Tutorial: Deploying Kotlin desktop apps that embed Chromium, with Conveyor
For the JVM there is a framework which allows you to fully drive the frontend from the backend by sending fragments of HTML to partially update the view. It's based on the open web components (using Lit), so easy to extend a. One of the developer has also implemented a version in Kotlin UI DSL
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Web frontend recommendations to transition from Android Development
Vaadin on Kotlin is pretty similar to Jetpack Compose.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ktor and vaadin-on-kotlin you can also consider the following projects:
Quarkus - Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
javalin - A simple and modern Java and Kotlin web framework [Moved to: https://github.com/javalin/javalin]
http4k - The Functional toolkit for Kotlin HTTP applications. http4k provides a simple and uniform way to serve, consume, and test HTTP services.
kvision - Object oriented web framework for Kotlin/JS
Svelte - Cybernetically enhanced web apps
vertx-lang-kotlin - Vert.x for Kotlin
Doodle - A pure Kotlin UI framework for the Web (and desktop).
spring-native - Spring Native is now superseded by Spring Boot 3 official native support
krawler - A web crawling framework written in Kotlin
Jooby - The modular web framework for Java and Kotlin
GraphQL Kotlin - Libraries for running GraphQL in Kotlin