http4k-connect VS Gradle

http4k-connect is a set of lightweight (zero-reflection) API libraries for connecting to popular third-party cloud services using http4k clients, along with Fake implementations for usage during local testing. It is based around the Connect pattern, which allows you to express client-side adapters in modular and composable way.

Great stack! Just out of interest , any reason you don't use Http4k connect for your AWS needs?

TBH, the official SDK dynamo client library isn't great for either. If you're looking for something lightweight, you could try http4k-connect - the dynamo client API is much nicer, does type-safety by plugging into the http4k lens system, and is zero reflection (using Moshi and generated adapters), which means you can simply cross compile to GraalVM. We're using it for native Kotlin Lambdas using the custom http4k Lambda runtime and it's 🚀🚀🚀. You can also use it backed by the OkHttp client wrapper if you want.

Because executing CodeNarc from the command-line is not so simple, I find it easier to use Gradle and its dedicated plugin to execute CodeNarc:

A ("shared") build service is kind of like a singleton, in that when you register one in any project, it's available in all projects as a single instance. (This unfortunately turns out not to be true, in some cases, when using composite builds, but can be worked around.) An actual singleton (global static instance) doesn't work at all, for the record—try it if you want to lose some sanity. Anyway, use a build service whenever you need global mutable state in your build.

When using build tools like Maven or Gradle, you can configure environment variables in the build scripts or configuration files.

For large projects, purpose-made build tools such as Gradle and Maven are preferred for managing the directory structure since they introduce additional semantics for managing test code and other programming languages (among lots of other things). Most IDEs can integrate with these build tools easily. If you're just starting out though, I wouldn't worry too much about these, you can visit them later.

Project Build and Management: Apache Maven 3 (3.9.5), Gradle 8 (8.3)

No wonder this had been raised previously, https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/15383

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.

The details regarding the code compiling would vary from one project to another. For that project, it seems that it uses Gradle (a helper tool) for compiling. Check Gradle's documentation for more information.