Ktor Tutorial

You decided to build a backend with Kotlin. Good choice. But now you face another decision: Ktor or Spring Boot? Both are great frameworks. Both support Kotlin. But they are very different in philosophy, design, and use cases. Let’s compare them honestly. The Big Picture Ktor is a lightweight, modular framework built by JetBrains. It is Kotlin-native, coroutine-based, and you add features as plugins. Spring Boot is a full-featured, batteries-included framework from VMware (now Broadcom). It started as a Java framework and added Kotlin support later. ...

You know Kotlin. You build Android apps, maybe KMP apps. But what about the backend? Every app needs a server. An API to fetch data from. A backend to store users, handle payments, send notifications. You could learn Node.js and Express. Or Python and FastAPI. Or Java and Spring Boot. Or you could use the Kotlin you already know — and build your backend with Ktor. What is Ktor? Ktor is a backend framework built by JetBrains — the same company that created Kotlin. It lets you build web servers, REST APIs, microservices, and web applications using Kotlin. ...