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5 | 17 | |
2,494 | 4,282 | |
0.9% | 1.4% | |
9.8 | 9.4 | |
1 day ago | 6 days ago | |
Kotlin | Kotlin | |
Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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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
Kotest
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AocKt: Test-driven Advent of Code in Kotlin
As you might know, Advent of Code will begin this Friday! If, like me, you want to have a go at solving the puzzles in Kotlin, I would like to share with you a little library I've developed to reduce boilerplate and solve the puzzles in a test-driven approach. It is based on Kotest, a modern and Kotlin-first test framework.
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Tests Everywhere - Kotlin
Kotlin testing with Kotest and MockK
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Best practices for Unit Testing Android Apps with Mockk, Kotest and others
As a matter of fact, in the previous examples, we have shifted a bit away from the TDD standards in the meaning that we test not only the operability of our code, but rather check if the code runs according to certain specifications (Given/When/Then). These specifications are our tests, and the syntactic sugar in the form of the possibility to give clear names to the tests using DisplayName and the grouping of the tests by a set of similar attributes helps us clearly formulate these specifications. There is an entire family of frameworks in different languages that allow us to create such specifications: for Java it is Spock, for Ruby—RSpec, and for Kotlin—Spek and Kotest frameworks. Below, I will go into more detail about them.
- Why do Kotlin tests (for Gradle projects) have to be inside classes?
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Kotlin Mutation Tests
I've tried so many times. SO MANY. I love the idea of mutation testing. Even chatGPT couldn't help me. It just made up fake mutation testing frameworks to try. To me, pitest is dead. kotest is not mutation testing, but it's property testing is the next best thing I have found to revolutionize your unit tests.
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How to improve third-party libraries with Kotlin extensions
The extensions are not particularly useful in this scenario because the described functionality can be incorporated into the Host class. On the other hand, they flourish in test frameworks like Kotest and enable the rapid development of useful add-ons like custom matchers. Extending third-party libraries with utility functions is another prevalent use case. In the next sections, we'll zero in on this specific aspect.
- Are there any plans to make a better build system for Kotlin than Gradle?
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Testing with fakes different states?
We're using Kotest for our unit tests and are quite happy with it.
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Testing with Kotlin and JUnit5
Basic testing in Kotlin with Kotest built for kotlin specificatlly (upcoming)
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Kotlin&Junit vs Groovy&Spock
Here you are: https://github.com/kotest/kotest/issues/189
What are some alternatives?
ktor - Framework for quickly creating connected applications in Kotlin with minimal effort
spek - A specification framework for Kotlin
javalin - A simple and modern Java and Kotlin web framework [Moved to: https://github.com/javalin/javalin]
mockk - mocking library for Kotlin
voyager-server-spring-boot-starter - Easily create REST endpoints with permissions (access control level) and hooks includeded
Kluent - Fluent Assertion-Library for Kotlin
vertx-lang-kotlin - Vert.x for Kotlin
strikt - An assertion library for Kotlin
kotlinx.html - Kotlin DSL for HTML
hamkrest - Hamcrest for Kotlin
kraph - GraphQL request string builder written in Kotlin
mockito-kotlin - Using Mockito with Kotlin