An opinionated take on how to build REST services with Kotlin.

Goals:

• service should start up in less than 10 seconds
• it should be fast to develop new features
• code should be easy to test

Key components:

• http4k with Netty as engine and Jackson for JSON serialization
• sequel used as SQL DSL
• KotlinTest for writing test with Mockito for mocking

The example project can be used as a starting point for building REST services. The code contains a controller for service status and another controller for an imaginary user API. All code is packaged by feature. Common stuff is in common package.