Ktor Exercises

Exercises

The following are a serie of exercises to get your familiar with Kotlin and Ktor. It's assumed you have a basic understanding of Kotlin and know how to work with Gradle. Each exercises builds on the previous one, starting with the very basics of Hello World.

To get you up and running easily, a sample build.gradle file is provided with all the required dependencies for Ktor and Kotlin. You can import it into your favourite IDE and start building the exercises on that.

A sample solution is provided for each exercises in the /solutions folder.

• Exercise 0: Hello World
• Exercise 1: HTML DSL, POST and Sessions
• Exercise 2: HTML DSL, Typed Routes and Asynchronous Code
• Exercise 3: Creating a Reverse Proxy
• Exercise 4: Autoreload

Solutions

Below are the solutions for the exercises. Note that your solution doesn't need to exactly match what's presented here. As long as it's generally inline and works, you should be good!

• Solution 0: Hello World
• Solution 1: HTML DSL, POST and Sessions
• Solution 2: Typed Routes and Asynchronous Code
• Solution 3: Creating a Reverse Proxy
• Solution 3: Autoreload