Hi, Any resources for spring boot + kotlin best practices and tutorials?

# spring

[Manoj]

Hi, Any resources for spring boot + kotlin best practices and tutorials?

[antonarhipov]

Generally, with Kotlin you have the same best practices for Spring as with Java

Maybe just with one additional feature - Spring provides a number of kotlin extensions

[Manoj]

Thanks Anton. Any free resources you suggest for learning Spring boot.

[Luca Piccinelli]

Here you are the official guide from spring https://spring.io/guides/tutorials/spring-boot-kotlin/

[Luca Piccinelli]

It is interesting because it also explains the need of maven/gradle plugins

[Luca Piccinelli]

It is also interesting to know that you have the DSL alternative to wire beans in Kotlin, instead of annotations. routing and beans

[Luca Piccinelli]

Also, it important to know that if you use JPA in Kotlin, you should avoid the use of data classes to declare entities. It is well explained in the above tutorial

[Manoj]

Thanks a lot @Luca Piccinelli.

[Tom Hermann]

Another good spot on the Spring website to checkout is the Spring Boot documentation: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.6.3/reference/htmlsingle/

It’s a little verbose to get started, but a great reference to read up on the core features and third party integrations