Ktor is a Kotlin-native backend framework developed by JetBrains, designed for building lightweight, efficient, and easily scalable backend applications. This course will guide learners from the ground up, helping them understand Ktor’s core concepts and implement a basic RESTful API service. It is suitable for developers with basic Kotlin experience who want to advance their backend development skills.
In the Ktor Foundamentals course, you will learn:
- Ktor Basics and Setup
- Introduction to Ktor and its features
- Initializing a Ktor project and Gradle setup
- Server and environment configuration
- Request and Response Handling
- Setting up routing
- Handling request parameters
- Ktor Plugins and Middleware
- Introduction to the Ktor’s Plugin mechanism
- Using common Plugins, such as ContentNegotiation and Resources
- Database Integration
- Dependency injection with the Koin framework
- ORM operations using Exposed
- Building a CRUD API service
- Project Deployment and Testing
- Writing unit tests and integration tests
- Deploying Ktor to Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Monitoring and log management
Through this course, you will be able to use Ktor to build a basic backend service, laying a solid foundation for future advanced projects.
If you’re interested in this course, feel free to contact me.