Am I missing some dependency? I'm trying to connect my ktor app to a MySQL database using Jetbrains Exposed Framework. According to the docs, this is how I should connect to the db, but then why is it unable to find the driver? Am I missing some gradle dependency?

Try ask in #exposed

I think you didn't add the MySQL driver as a dependency in your project. Check: https://github.com/JetBrains/Exposed/wiki/DataBase-and-DataSource#datasource