Ktor Tutorial #6: Database Setup — Exposed ORM with H2
Our API works, but the data lives in memory. Restart the server and everything is gone. Time to add a real database. In this tutorial, you will connect your Ktor API to a database using Exposed — JetBrains’ SQL library for Kotlin. We will use H2 for development and explain how to switch to PostgreSQL for production. What is Exposed? Exposed is a SQL library made by JetBrains. It gives you two ways to work with databases: ...