Modern Web Development with Kotlin
Modern Web Development with Kotlin
A concise and practical step-by-step guide
About the Book
In this book, you will learn how to use Kotlin to build Web applications on top of Vert.x, access databases, test and deploy your code. You will also learn to use Gradle and integrate it with Webpack, Sass and React.
The book doesn't expect any prior Kotlin experience as the basics are briefly explained in the first chapters. The required functional programming concepts are also explained in the beginning.
Who this book is for
This book is intended for people who are interested in learning Kotlin and applying it for writing Web applications. It assumes a good knowledge of any programming language and familiarity with Web technologies.
Acknowledgements
The cover illustration was designed by Freepik
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Preface
-
Preparing the environment
- Choosing the operating system
- Installing Java Development Kit
- Installing Kotlin
- Installing IntelliJ IDEA
- Installing Atom Editor
-
Build tools
- Command line
- Gradle
-
Editing source files
- Using Atom
- Using IntelliJ IDEA
-
Language fundamentals
- Using the REPL
- Defining values
- Lambdas
- Type hierarchy
- Nullable types
- Collections
- Defining classes
- Defining objects
- Type parametrization
- Extension functions
- Packages and imports
- Loops and conditionals
- String templates
- Interfaces
-
Functional programming
- Higher-order functions
- Tuples and data classes
- Laziness
- Algebraic data types
- Option
- Either
- Promise
-
Working with Vert.x
- Installing Vert.x
- Dispatching requests
- Thymeleaf templates
- Watching for source changes
- Serving asynchronous results
- Adding sunrise and sunset times
- Using Java 8 Date and Time API
- Adding weather information
- Moving logic into services
- Serving static assets
-
Frontend integration
- Setting up nvm
- Choosing the versions
- package.json
- GruntJS and Gulp
- Module bundlers
- Using EcmaScript 6 with Babel
- Explaining React
- Separating the frontend
- Initializing the frontend project
- webpack.config.js explained
- Using React
- Sending data via JSON
- Using Sass with Webpack
- Extracting styles
-
Authenticating users
- Vert.x configuration
- Installing PostgreSQL
- Pooling connections with HikariCP
- Hashing passwords with BCrypt
- Migrating with Flyway
- Implementing authentication logic
- Page templates
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Testing and logging
- Testing with KotlinTest
- Logging in Vert.x
-
Hosting and deployment
- Hosting considerations
- Preparing the distribution
- Closing remarks
- Appendix A. Packages
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