Hi All. Do any of you know of some good resources to get up and running with Kotlin? My last experience with the JVM was at University, that was Java 6. Now we are at Java 10 o.o. I am a Web guy, I use mostly Python, PHP and Go at work so I am spoilt when it comes to the simplicity of creating HTTP/JSON/RESTish apis. My understanding is that the 'Spring' framework is used for web dev? But it seems to be a 6000 pound gorilla for a hello world api...is there something like the equivilent of golangs net/http library for Kotlin/Java? any help would be much appreciated.

https://javalin.io, gorilla free

https://kotlin.link/?q=web under libraries/frameworks

Spring boot make taming that gorilla easier, but hey if it's kotlin you want go all in and try ktor and javalin :)

Spring boot makes something easier?

it makes spring easier? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Isn't that it's whole premise? 😮

Also look at Kovert though it runs on top of Vert.x. REST APIs are all easy nowadays... I'm doing a presentation on Kotlin server frameworks in a few weeks and they mostly look the same for simple stuff.

@kenkyee please post slides after

It's very shallow because it's a 25min presentation at a local Meetup, but will do. Covering what I think people should look for in a framework and then going over pros and cons of each