Table of Contents

Part I. Up and Running with a Web App.- 1. Setting Up A Development Environment.- 2. Setting Up the Web App Skeleton.- 3. Configuration Files.- 4. Decoupling Web Handlers from Specific Libraries.- Part II. Libraries and Solutions.- 5. Connecting to and Migrating SQL Databases.- 6. Querying a SQL Database.- 7. Automated Tests with jUnit 5.- 8. Parallelizing Service Calls with Coroutines.- 9. Building Traditional Web Apps with HTML and CSS.- 10. Building API Based Backends.- 11. Deploying to a Traditional Server Based Environments.- 12. Build and Deploy to a Serverless Environment.- 13. Setup, Teardown and Dependency Injection with Spring Context.- 14. Enterprise Authentication using Spring Security.- Part III. Tools of the Trade.- 15. Choosing the Right Library.- 16. An Assortment of Kotlin Tricks.- Appendix A: Using Jooby Instead of Ktor.- Appendix B: Using Hoplite Instead of Typesafe Config.- Appendix C: Using Spek Instead of jUnit 5.

About the Author

​August Lilleaas has built web apps, user interfaces, and real-time systems since 2004, and mobile apps since the app stores opened in the late 2000s. After picking up Clojure in 2012, he left the frameworks and ORMs behind and started to build web apps from scratch, and has shipped to production using Clojure, Groovy, Node.JS, Elixir, and Kotlin. August has worked as a consultant for a decade and is now an independent contractor and startup founder.