Getting started with Ktor

You might be weary of developing commonplace applications like to-do or shopping lists.

Thus, in this chapter, we will design a microservice for a cat shelter. The microservice will have capabilities to:

• Offer an endpoint to verify the service’s operational status.
• Display a list of cats currently residing in the shelter.
• Enable the addition of new cats.
• Update cat information.
• Remove a cat added by mistake from the registry.

For this project, we will utilize Ktor, a concurrent framework developed and maintained by the creators of the Kotlin programming language.

The easiest way to create a Ktor application nowadays is by going to https://start.ktor.io and generating a new project.

Figure 11.1: Project generation on start.ktor.io

For the moment, exclude all additional plugins; we will introduce them gradually later, explaining the purpose of each.

After downloading the resulting...