GraphQL Kotlin VS ktor

New to Kotlin, but trying to create a project with Kotlin, GraphQL, and Postgres. I'm not opposed to using ktor, but was hoping to use spring boot. I liked expedia's GraphQL Kotlin but having a hard time finding tutorials that go over how to set up a project like this. I see that there are some examples here https://github.com/ExpediaGroup/graphql-kotlin/tree/master/examples but wondering if there are any tutorials anyone could recommend

Their client framework officially supports ktor client https://github.com/ExpediaGroup/graphql-kotlin/tree/master/clients/graphql-kotlin-ktor-client while their schema generator seems to be just framework-independent jvm library https://github.com/ExpediaGroup/graphql-kotlin/tree/master/generator/graphql-kotlin-schema-generator And you could use their gradle plugin as described here https://github.com/ExpediaGroup/graphql-kotlin/tree/master/plugins/graphql-kotlin-gradle-plugin which would make the whole thing a breeze I guess :)

GraphQL Kotlin consists of a number of libraries that aim to simplify the running of GraphQL servers and clients using Kotlin. It’s been over 10 months since the last major release of graphql-kotlin and after hundreds of commits and numerous pre-releases, we are pleased to announce the 4.0.0 release!

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.

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):

Ktor (Microservices framework by JetBrains)

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

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.

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.

For the sake of the test, we use Ktor - the easiest way to do so is to use initializer.

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.

Check https://ktor.io it's from JetBrains and amazing.