Hi everyone! I've recently decided that I want to rewrite my currently static portfolio website/blog...

# server

[Tomer]

Hi everyone! I've recently decided that I want to rewrite my currently static portfolio website/blog as a dynamically served website with a server (mainly with the purpose of adding additional functionality). I love Kotlin and when looking into using it for the server I came across ktor and exposed which I think I would work well together. However, most of the server-side code I've written has been in Ruby under the Rails framework, which is super opinionated and pushes for a predefined structure that I certainly followed. Now I've started working with ktor and exposed and I'm a bit at a loss for how to organize my code. Have any of you figured out a way to organize your classes, functions, files, etc. that's scaled well?

[tipsy]

most people recommend package by feature, so if you have blogposts on your website, you'd do

blogpost
    BlogPost // data class
    BlogPostController // business logic
    BlogPostDao // database access

[tipsy]

then make one package per feature your website has

[mp]

It doesn’t matter too much because it’s pretty easy to change later because there’s so much better tooling in Kotlin than in Ruby… rearrange stuff to your heart’s content and the IDE / compiler will make sure you get it right. 🙂

[Tomer]

Okay thanks! I'll try that

[Jeremy]

You can still develop spaghetti in any language incl. Kotlin 🙂