Pro Kotlin Web Apps from Scratch: Building Production-Ready Web Apps Without a Framework

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A. LilleaasPro Kotlin Web Apps from Scratchhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9057-6_10

10. Building API-Based Back Ends

August Lilleaas¹  

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Oslo, Norway

 

In the modern world of web apps, it’s common to have back ends that are completely API based and have either a mobile app or a JavaScript-based web front end that interacts with them. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to set up an API for those scenarios.

If you’re new to Kotlin, here are some language features that you’ll see examples of in this chapter:

• Parsing and producing JSON with third-party libraries

Also in this chapter, you will learn the following about building API-based back ends:

• Different types ...