This project is an application skeleton for a typical Node.js app written entirely with Kotlin.

Node.js app with Kotlin

https://kotlin-nodejs.herokuapp.com/

1. express.js to run server and routing
2. ejs templating engine for express.js
3. Kotlin Dependencies
4. kotlin-js to compile/trans-compile kotlin to js

$ gradlew.bat build

$ ./gradlew build

$ ./gradlew :backend:nodeRun

$ ./gradlew :webapp:browserDevelopmentRun -t

This project consist of three modules:

• backend
  • this is where server-side node.js implementation exists
• common
  • consists of shared implementations between back-end and front-end
  • do not include any secrets in this module as it is share with front-end
• webapp
  • this is the front-end module that renders the single page application

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/js-overview.html

1. add frontend framework
2. use jetbrains frontend plugin for dependency management and hot-reload
3. add unit tests
4. add end-to-end tests