Ktor Tutorial for Artisans (Laravel developer)

[shengyou]

Develop a Ktor 1.5 tutorial for artisan, mainly focus on the following topics:

• Ktor introduction
  • What's it?
  • Quick history for the name, the goal, the team
  • Main advantage (eg. light-weight)
• Development environment
  • IDE with JDK
  • Ktor plugin
• Project creation & dependency
  • Ktor project template
  • Gradle
• Routing
  • Hello world app
• Request & Response
  • The call object & application cycle
  • Retrieve params
• Features
  • Add ContentNegotiation to return JSON response
  • Add `View to return HTML page
• Exposed
  • Add exposed and mysql-driver dependency
  • Create schema for migration
  • Create DAO for CRUD
• Retrospective
  • What we learned?
  • Similarities and Differences

[khalidabuhakmeh]

I would recommend we all use an SQLite database so that users can have minimal environmental setup.

[shengyou]

Agree with you that we should make the environment setting as simple as possible. However, I found it's more common to use H2 in JVM ecosystem. Maybe we could introduce H2 in this article?