Hey all 👋 - new to ktor and kotlin. Struggling to find a way to run a REPL that has my ktor (really

build.gradle.kts

I suppose) environment loaded. Also open to someone giving me a slap and explaining why this is not a necessary/useful part of your workflow (I'm coming from Rails/Phoenix worlds where this is commonplace).

Can you share any errors you're getting? I don't find the REPL useful since it's so easy to write tests that hit your app's endpoints: https://ktor.io/servers/testing.html. If I get something working, I'd rather have a test that documents it and keeps it working than a REPL history. 🤷

Sure, and that's what I'm doing too. I'd just like the REPL as a learning tool, playing around with things while I'm trying to find my way. Here's one I tried https://gist.github.com/mkobit/e06ddf93fcb9a67ded3426bd5a266bed - now, I'm very early days of learning all this, so I just copy/pasted and tried it. First I got "Unresolved reference" for

java.sourceSets

, so just copying other lines in my

build.gradle.kts

file I removed the

java.

, next run it went further but I got

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gnu/trove/THashMap

- at which point I gave up :)