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_2

2. Setting Up the Web App Skeleton

August Lilleaas¹  

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Oslo, Norway

 

Look at all the things I’m not doing!

—David Heinemeier Hansson

This chapter will give you superpowers. You will get all the way to a working web app with routing, views/templates, and logging. You’ll set the stage for what’s to come in later chapters. It will just be you and your IDE, no starter kits or frameworks.

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

• Lambdas

• Named arguments

Also in this chapter, you will learn the following about creating web apps ...