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kotlin-spark-routes

Playground for combining kotlin-spark, Thymleaf, custom annotations etc

This is where I play around with Kotlin, kotlin-sparkjava, and other technologies. I'm hoping that this repository will at least compile, if not actually do anything useful.

A running version of the app may be found hosted on Heroku.

For commentary and thoughts on my Kotlin experiments, see my blog.

Goals and technologies:

  • HTTP server through spark-kotlin
  • Page layouts and templating with Thymeleaf; others supported by spark-kotlin may follow later
  • The Dependency Injection framework Kodein - bit of learning curve
  • Database handling and ORM with JetBrain's own Exposed, which is odd but interesting
  • Reflection and annotation processing
  • Unit testing with JUnit and nhaarman's Kotlin Mockito
  • Making it pretty through Materializecss

I'm avoiding all the traditional big hitters for Java - Spring Boot, Hibernate, JSF2, JSP - as I want to learn more about alternative approaches. I'd like to use as much Kotlin as possible, but I'm not dogmatic about it. Java libraries are allowed.