Good evening all. I trying to pivot to backend dev...

# spring

[Idongesit Samuel Robson]

Good evening all.
I trying to pivot to backend development with spring and Kotlin but I have not found resources online that are not outdated about spring using Kotlin. please can someone recommend courses, YouTube links or books to use for spring in Kotlin .

[Daniel Pitts]

Spring doesn't change much just because you're using Kotlin, so while the documentation/tutorials may use Java, you can use the Kotlin syntax instead.

[Daniel Pitts]

if you're new to both Kotlin and to Spring, I recommends learning basic Kotlin first (shouldn't take a long time), and then learn Spring second.

[ashmelev]

I agree with @Daniel Pitts. Additionally, there is a YouTube channel for Spring: https://www.youtube.com/@SpringSourceDev

[Idongesit Samuel Robson]

I use Kotlin for android development already I want to broaden my skillset

[ashmelev]

Take a look here: https://spring.academy/
And yes, many of the examples will be in Java, but if you are using the IntelliJ IDE then you can simply copy/parse them and the IDE will convert them to Kotlin (not always perfectly, but it's quite good)

[ashmelev]

Oh, and it will make your life easier if you focus on Spring Boot rather than stand-alone Spring. SpringBoot goes a very long way towards simpler deployment