KontaktApp - Self Management Platform

Frameworks Used:

• Ktor - Web API
• KVision (Kotlin/JS) - Frontend Web Application

Libraries Used:

• Arrow (Core) - Error Handling and Monads
• Ballast (Core & Navigation) - Frontend State Management and Routing
• JetBrains Exposed - Database ORM Framework
• JDBC Drivers (H2 / MySQL - Database Access
• Koin - Dependency Injection + Ktor Bindings
• kotlinx-datetime - Multiplatform Datetime Library
• Ktor - Http Client
• KVision Modules - Rich Integrations and Libraries for Frontend Development

Features:

• Authentication
• Contacts Management
• Task Management
• User Preferences
• UI Enhancements

Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented. See ChangeLog for details.

Note:

The project can be used with or without a database.

• To use without a database, set the settings.useInMemoryStorage property in src/backendMain/resources/application.conf to true
• To use with a database, configure the db section in src/backendMain/resources/application.conf accordingly. Don't forget to create a database for it too...

Gradle Tasks

Compiling

• compileKotlinFrontend - Compiles frontend sources.
• compileKotlinBackend - Compiles backend sources.

Running

• frontendRun - Starts a webpack dev server on port 3000
• backendRun - Starts a dev server on port 8080

Packaging

• frontendBrowserWebpack - Bundles the compiled js files into build/distributions
• frontendJar - Packages a standalone "web" frontend jar with all required files into build/libs/*.jar
• backendJar - Packages a backend jar with compiled source files into build/libs/*.jar
• jar - Packages a "fat" jar with all backend sources and dependencies while also embedding frontend resources into build/libs/*.jar