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Kotlin for Web development

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Kotlin is an open-source, statically typed programming language supported and developed by JetBrains and open-source contributors. Kotlin is influenced by other popular programming languages such as Java, C#, JavaScript, Scala and Groovy. Kotlin can be used for web development to build server-side applications and for frontend web applications using Kotlin/JVM, Kotlin.js, and many other frameworks.

Kotlin is designed to interoperate fully with Java, meaning that libraries written in Java can be called or referenced directly in Kotlin code and libraries written in Kotlin can be referenced in Java. Kotlin helps developers to build many types of scalable, and robust applications, it is concise, readable, and easy to learn, it is much easier than Java.

With Kotlin, full-stack web developers can write front-end code in the same language used for their back-end code. It compiles them both to JavaScript to run in the browser. It allows syntax, shared libraries, and programming paradigms to stay consistent on both the front and back end.

Kotlin is used for:

  • Android development
  • Back-end web development
  • Full-stack web development
  • Data Science
  • Multiplatform mobile development

You can download kotlin from below link: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/releases/tag/v1.7.21

. Below are some of the frameworks for both frontend and backend.

FRONTEND

  • Doodle: a vector-based UI framework for Kotlin/JS
  • KVision: an object-oriented web framework that makes used to write applications in Kotlin/JS
  • Compose for Web: uses Google’s Jetpack Compose UI toolkit to build reactive web user interfaces
  • Fritz2: a standalone framework for building reactive web user interfaces.

SERVER-SIDE

  • Ktor: a multi-platform toolkit for creating Web applications in Kotlin.
  • Spring: A Java and Kotlin framework for application development
  • Javalin: A lightweight Kotlin and Java framework
  • Http4K: a toolkit for serving and consuming HTTP services.
  • Quarkus: a platform for implementing cloud-native services
  • Vaadin: a server-focused framework for building applications with Kotlin and Java
  • Vert.X: a toolkit for building reactive applications on the JVM.
  • Cuba.Platform: a full-stack framework for building web applications with Kotlin
  • Micronaut: a framework for building microservice applications with Kotlin.

CONCLUSION

Kotlin can be used for web development and it is becoming a popular choice among developers and companies for building server-side applications.

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