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_1

1. Setting Up a Development Environment

August Lilleaas¹  

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Oslo, Norway

 

In this chapter you’ll set up a development environment for Kotlin. You’ll install IntelliJ IDEA, a Java Development Kit (JDK), you’ll write a small Kotlin program, and you’ll compile and run it using the Gradle build system.

This chapter explains how to do everything using IntelliJ IDEA. For the other chapters in this book, though, using IntelliJ IDEA is not a requirement. For example, both the Eclipse IDE (integrated development environment) and Visual Studio Code have Kotlin plugins available, made ...