Ktor Tutorial for Flask and Djnago Users

[gamesbrainiac]

Objectives

• Making Ktor something that seems easy to grasp
• Showing the similarities, in a way that is translated from one vernacular to another
• Showing differences
• Using idiomatic Kotlin

Outline

• Introduction to Ktor (and what frameworks it is similar to)
• Setup (this includes IDE and gradle setup to get a hello world app running)
• How Kotlin is different in terms of Models, Views and Controllers/Templates
• Connecting to a Database
• Building out a simple API (could be a voting app), and rendering to Index.html
• Conclusion on similarities and differences

[gamesbrainiac]

I created an initial draft, with the introduction. Going to be building two apps, because some concepts are quite new to python developers. Check nafiul-python branch. Updates will trickle in slowly as I figure things out.