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_9

9. Building Traditional Web Apps with HTML and CSS

August Lilleaas¹  

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Oslo, Norway

 

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to generate HTML on the server and how to set up your web app to serve CSS, images, and other static content.

You’ll also set up authentication and a login form and enhance your existing user_t table to support production-grade password security and encryption.

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

• The safe call operator

• Operator overloading

• Using domain-specific languages (DSLs)

• Details about the ...