This codebase was created to demonstrate a fully fledged fullstack application built with * Ktor* including CRUD operations, authentication, routing, pagination, and more.
We've gone to great lengths to adhere to the Ktor community styleguides & best practices.
For more information on how to this works with other frontends/backends, head over to the RealWorld repo.
Here's a list of features included in this project:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Routing | Provides a structured routing DSL |
| Status Pages | Provides exception handling for routes |
| Default Headers | Adds a default set of headers to HTTP responses |
| Call Logging | Logs client requests |
| Koin | Provides dependency injection |
| kotlinx.serialization | Handles JSON serialization using kotlinx.serialization library |
| Content Negotiation | Provides automatic content conversion according to Content-Type and Accept headers |
| Exposed | Adds Exposed database to your application |
| Jackson | Handles JSON serialization using Jackson library |
| Authentication | Provides extension point for handling the Authorization header |
| Authentication JWT | Handles JSON Web Token (JWT) bearer authentication scheme |
| CORS | Enables Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) |
To build or run the project, use one of the following tasks:
| Task | Description |
|---|---|
./gradlew test |
Run the tests |
./gradlew build |
Build everything |
buildFatJar |
Build an executable JAR of the server with all dependencies included |
buildImage |
Build the docker image to use with the fat JAR |
publishImageToLocalRegistry |
Publish the docker image locally |
run |
Run the server |
runDocker |
Run using the local docker image |
If the server starts successfully, you'll see the following output:
2024-12-04 14:32:45.584 [main] INFO Application - Application started in 0.303 seconds.
2024-12-04 14:32:45.682 [main] INFO Application - Responding at http://0.0.0.0:8080