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http4k
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What's the state of server-side frameworks with Kotlin support today for small teams?
You named Express as an example for a good framework - I'd say both http4k and ktor come close to it. Spring Boot would really be on the other end and I met lots of JS/TS devs that didn't even want to touch it. I did have the same impression than you though: Documentation for ktor is not great at all.
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Which backend Frameworks for Web App is easy to learn?
http4k has excellent documentation and very simple concepts.
- Jackson, moshi or kotlinx.serialization?
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Application-as-a-Function Thinking
I couple of years ago I was lucky to use http4k, a server as a function web library for Kotlin. It was such a wonderful change compared to every other technologies available in both Java and Kotlin. It's simple.
Testing becomes so much easier too, as one can instantiate a the whole web routing aspect, without having to bind it to a port and having to send real http requests.
If strongly suggest people to take a look at it. It's not perfect, but it's a lot simpler than other frameworks and libraries. And it's a shift in some of the current mentality of using heavy frameworks (such as spring boot) which blow up anyone's cognitive load.
https://github.com/http4k/http4k
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How is the market for Kotlin developers where you live?
http4k with the contract, format-jackson, and server-undertow modules
KGraphQL
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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
ktor - Framework for quickly creating connected applications in Kotlin with minimal effort
GraphQL Kotlin - Libraries for running GraphQL in Kotlin
javalin - A simple and modern Java and Kotlin web framework [Moved to: https://github.com/javalin/javalin]
yested - A Kotlin framework for building web applications in Javascript.
voyager-server-spring-boot-starter - Easily create REST endpoints with permissions (access control level) and hooks includeded
kraph - GraphQL request string builder written in Kotlin
vertx-lang-kotlin - Vert.x for Kotlin
kotlinx.html - Kotlin DSL for HTML
apollo-android - :robot: A strongly-typed, caching GraphQL client for the JVM, Android, and Kotlin multiplatform.