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Kotlin 1.4 Online Event @hhariri October 15, 2020
What is Ktor?
- An OSS Framework
- Creating Server and Client applications
- Multiplatform
Ktor - Past, Present, and Future Hadi Hariri @hhariri October 15, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Ktor - Past, Present, and Future Hadi Hariri @hhariri October 15, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Kotlin 1.4 Online Event Ktor - Past, Present, and Future Hadi Hariri @hhariri October 15, 2020 What is Ktor? An OSS Framework Creating Server and Client applications Multiplatform A bit of history Frameworks for Kotlin
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A bit of history
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Frameworks for Kotlin
- Kara - A Ruby on Rails for Kotlin
- Wasabi - An Express.js for Kotlin
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Ktor
- Initiated by Ilya Ryzhenkov
- Inspired by Kara and Wasabi
- Apart from being a framework, it served to
- Explore Kotlin as a DSL tool
- Base for library usage
- Coroutines to the max
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It caught on…
- Started being used externally
- Started being used internally
- Space decided to go with Ktor
- Multiple internal projects started using it
- It started getting external contributions
(Pull Requests)
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But there was a problem…
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And there were just two “part-time” developers
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Brings us to today
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We have quadrupled our team size!
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Changes we’ve already made
- Moved to Semantic Versioning
- New site, new blog. And new Twitter
account (@JetBrainsKtor).
- Commitment to 3 major/minor releases
a year and monthly patch releases
- Introducing deprecation cycle
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Ktor on the Server
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fun main() { val server = embeddedServer(Netty, 8080) { routing { get("/") { call.respondText("Hello Ktor!", ContentType.Text.Plain) } } } server.start(wait = true) }
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fun main() { val server = embeddedServer(Netty, 8080) { routing { get("/") { call.respondText("Hello Ktor!", ContentType.Text.Plain) } } } server.start(wait = true) }
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fun main() { val server = embeddedServer(Netty, 8080) { routing { get("/") { call.respondText("Hello Ktor!", ContentType.Text.Plain) } } } server.start(wait = true) }
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fun main() { val server = embeddedServer(Netty, 8080) { routing { get("/") { call.respondText("Hello Ktor!", ContentType.Text.Plain) } } } server.start(wait = true) }
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fun main() { val server = embeddedServer(Netty, 8080) { routing { get("/") { call.respondText("Hello Ktor!", ContentType.Text.Plain) } } } server.start(wait = true) }
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A Ktor Application
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Module Module Module
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A Module
Request Response Routing App Logic
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A Module
Request Response Routing App Logic
Feature
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A Module
Feature
Request Response Routing App Logic
Feature
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Compression
A Module
Request Response Routing App Logic
Encoding
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A Module
Request Response Routing App Logic
Feature
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Demos
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What lies ahead
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What’s in store?
- Improving of onboarding experience
- Improving development lifecycle experience
(testing, deployment, etc.)
- Improving client/server parity
- Improving extensibility
- Being attentive to performance
- Revamping documentation (with compilable samples)
- Improving tooling
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More at ktor.io
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@hhariri