Hey there! My name is Gunnar, I work for a small a...

# ktor

[gschulze]

Hey there! My name is Gunnar, I work for a small analytics company located in Austria and we're using Ktor as backend technology for serving our dashboard applications.

[Dennis Schröder]

Sounds like an proxy application that runs before the others

[Dennis Schröder]

https://nats-io.github.io/docs/

You could use nats as your proxy

[Dennis Schröder]

Or an nginx

[gschulze]

Thanks for the reply! Actually, it's a bit more than that. There are shared pages like login/logout, profile page, etc. that live beside the applications. I was just wondering whether it would be possible to build such a composable application in Ktor.

[gildor]

What kind isolation is required? Because the easiest way would be just have 1 Ktor application and compose multiple independent routes

[gildor]

Because you also need a way to define default behavior, also what if you want to handle multiple exceptions with a single function?

[gschulze]

Right now I have a module for each „application“, which sets up the corresponding routes. These modules should be Independent of each other, so they can be loaded from separate JAR files. Right now I have the problem that application features would get installed twice, leading to an error. I was thinking of implementing some sort of custom application engine, which manages an application mounted at a specific route, and delegating the appropriate calls to the nested application, with the URI adjusted accordingly. I‘m somehow lost in the pipeline API, however.

[gildor]

I see, probably it make sense to create an issue about it on ktor issue tracker