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Brian Mahecha

01/31/2019, 4:12 PM

Morning 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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cy

01/31/2019, 4:28 PM

You can try to generate a new server project using https://start.ktor.io/

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Brian Mahecha

01/31/2019, 4:54 PM

What are the general preferences for HttpClient Engine? I see 5 options.

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Vinicius Carvalho

01/31/2019, 11:05 PM

Hi Brian, I wrote this a while ago: https://dev.to/viniciusccarvalho/from-boot-to-native-kotlin-the-journey-of-a-spring-developer-584f

I was once a core contributor of the Spring Cloud team

I love Spring, but I found in ktor + koin a level of simplicity that I really can't go back anymore 🙂

At 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 PM

Wow great article, thanks so much @Vinicius Carvalho 🙏

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Vinicius Carvalho

02/01/2019, 2:28 PM

I found koin to be much easier to integrate with ktor. Kodein integration took a bit of customization, where koin is just

installKoin

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