Morning everyone, looking to take an existing Spri...
# ktorb
Brian Mahecha
01/31/2019, 4:12 PMMorning everyone, looking to take an existing Spring Boot application and create the same one using KTor. How has everyones experience with KTor been coming from a Spring background?
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01/31/2019, 4:28 PMYou can try to generate a new server project using https://start.ktor.io/
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Brian Mahecha
01/31/2019, 4:54 PMWhat are the general preferences for HttpClient Engine? I see 5 options.
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Vinicius Carvalho
01/31/2019, 11:05 PMHi Brian, I wrote this a while ago: https://dev.to/viniciusccarvalho/from-boot-to-native-kotlin-the-journey-of-a-spring-developer-584f
Vinicius Carvalho
01/31/2019, 11:06 PMI was once a core contributor of the Spring Cloud team
Vinicius Carvalho
01/31/2019, 11:06 PMI love Spring, but I found in ktor + koin a level of simplicity that I really can't go back anymore 🙂
Vinicius Carvalho
01/31/2019, 11:07 PMAt the time I wrote the article I used Kodein, but I since moved to Koin as my DI choice
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avolkmann
02/01/2019, 12:18 PM@vngantk what made you switch to Koin?
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Brian Mahecha
02/01/2019, 2:02 PMWow great article, thanks so much @Vinicius Carvalho 🙏
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Vinicius Carvalho
02/01/2019, 2:28 PMI found koin to be much easier to integrate with ktor. Kodein integration took a bit of customization, where koin is just
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