Hi guys how do you do authentication for ktor server backend do you use any libs or manually do it with ktor auth. Also what is the best way if I want to have oauths and normal email password auths too ?

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Hi guys i am having trouble with deploying my ktor backend to render via Docker Neither port nor sslPort specified. Use command line options -port/-sslPort or configure connectors in application.conf I am getting this error.

# Stage 1: Cache Gradle dependencies
FROM gradle:latest AS cache
RUN mkdir -p /home/gradle/cache_home
ENV GRADLE_USER_HOME=/home/gradle/cache_home
COPY build.gradle.* gradle.properties /home/gradle/app/
COPY gradle /home/gradle/app/gradle
WORKDIR /home/gradle/app
RUN gradle clean build -i --stacktrace

# Stage 2: Build Application
FROM gradle:latest AS build
COPY --from=cache /home/gradle/cache_home /home/gradle/.gradle
COPY --chown=gradle:gradle . /home/gradle/src
WORKDIR /home/gradle/src
# Build the fat JAR, Gradle also supports shadow
# and boot JAR by default.
RUN gradle buildFatJar --no-daemon

# Stage 3: Create the Runtime Image
FROM amazoncorretto:22 AS runtime
EXPOSE 8080
RUN mkdir /app
COPY --from=build /home/gradle/src/build/libs/*.jar /app/ktor-docker-sample.jar
ENTRYPOINT ["java","-jar","/app/ktor-docker-sample.jar"]

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I made a tutorial on how to create an MCP server with kotlin. Will I be breaking the rules if I post the youtube link here

Can someone explain it to me. I don't get the connection of compose wasm to CMP. Compose wasm is to build the UI framework for web, but does it have a backend logic. If I create a project that uses, Android, Ios, WASM, and the app size is 50MB will the wasm also be 50mb. most of those code should go to the backend, right? how does wasm know and communicate with the backend( the logic of the code)

Is multiplatform Ktor really a practical technology yet? I’ve gotten the basics working and have a basic HTTP server with HTML DSL; then this morning I tried to set up static routes to serve my static content … only to find that this functionality, and the entire io.ktor.server.http.content module, is JVM-only for some reason. (And the web page does not call this out, so I only found out when I tried to use the API in my code.) Serving static files is rock-bottom basic functionality for any web server I’ve ever used. If it’s not multiplatform in Ktor, what else isn’t? This has me doubting my decision to use Kotlin for this project (which cannot depend on the JVM.)

We built a server framework (https://github.com/lightningkite/lightning-server) that's been working out really well for us in production. However, I think adoption by others would be hampered by a few issues. One of the advantages of the framework is that it abstracts the common services servers depend on (database, cache, email, SMS, file systems) in a way that makes it really easy to both run your server locally for testing and deploy it to traditionally difficult targets (such as AWS Lambda / API Gateway). It also generates deployment terraform for you based on your server definition. If I broke out these service abstractions into a different library for use with Ktor and other libraries (like http4k), would anyone be interested?

Is it easy to launch your own Kotlin Ktor server from scratch act as proxy to Firebase Admin SDK, easy as in can do with AI agent or generate most of the boilerplate? It doesnt have to be perfect, but good enough to test if its worth it. Just deploy directly to GCP or something. Or something equivalent of that. Can be Apollo GraphQL or whatever.

what inspections or compiler options can one enable to avoid something like this happening where the aa & bb line is silently discarded due to a second '&&' missing at the end... val matched = list.find { aa && bb // accidentally deleted a second && at the end of line somehow cc } this doesn't show any error or warning or even any hints in the IDE, it's a bug that really thrown me and I do worry about this happening again although I understand whats happening its a concerning silent discard .

Hi Team , I have a Kotlin Notebook code cell. I have this api. i want to set a timeout here, the default is 10s. I don't want that.

val response = http.get("<http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1/flashcards?topic=Something&type=quiz&difficulty=hard>")
response.bodyAsText()

Can anyone help?

I finally managed to deploy container and run on Google Cloud, but all containers run default private and require OAuth tokens. Whats the recommended approach when integrate that server into a client frontend later on, to protect that token. It has to embed some kind of long lived token somewhere. Maybe possible to use Firebase Auth or something?

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guys question i have food delivery app backend in Ktor with 512 ram droplet but i face memory issues during building the app .. the old back was in laravel and it’s works fine any recommendations

Hi folks, Question re: mcp servers. I’m trying to set up a StreamableHttpServer transport on ktor. I’ve noticed that the kotlin mcp sdk has a PR open for this here. The comments in the PR mention it’s not possible to use this with ktor due to limitations in the routing dsl. I checked out the code from the PR and tried to get it working using the suggestion in the description but to no avail. Does anyone know of a workaround for this? Assuming I have the transport from the PR is there a way to get it working with ktor?

Hello, I have a question for server side, application.yaml works exactly as a .env file for websites? It should be a good approach to gitignore it and then setup it manually in each deployment or is better to have all application-dev.yaml, application-prod.yaml and run it server side with specific config?

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Hi, When will Kotlin v2.4, which contains rich errors, be released?

hi team Can we send JWT Token in ktor client web sockets request header?

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I've been working on a Kotlin based HTML template engine for a while. I call it KTML. I wanted one where I could just write HTML and easily create reusable components, and had great production performance. I also wanted it to work with KMP. It's at a decent state now for a beta version (with some framework integrations and a Gradle plugin). Here's the repo: https://github.com/ktool-dev/ktml There's also some small example applications. Let me know what you think.

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I joined slack because I want to exchange experiences with users of jetbrains exposed. is this the channel one should use when communication about version 1.0.0-rc-2

How can I record api responses and replay it locally for testing with my app ?

Hey there! I'm struggling to deploy a spring boot (kotlin) application on Railway via GitHub. Current build.gradle.kts:

plugins {
    kotlin("jvm") version "1.9.25"
    kotlin("plugin.spring") version "1.9.25"
    kotlin("plugin.jpa") version "2.0.21"
    id("org.springframework.boot") version "3.5.7"
    id("io.spring.dependency-management") version "1.1.7"
}

group = "eu.project"
version = "0.0.1-SNAPSHOT"
description = "Demo project for Spring Boot"

java {
    toolchain {
        languageVersion.set(JavaLanguageVersion.of(17))
    }
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {...}

kotlin {
    compilerOptions {
        freeCompilerArgs.addAll("-Xjsr305=strict")
    }
}

tasks.withType<Test> {
    useJUnitPlatform()
}

tasks.withType<JavaCompile> {
    options.release.set(17)
}

The error from build logs: Build failed with an exception. • What went wrong:

Could not determine the dependencies of task ':compileKotlin'.

Cannot find a Java installation on your machine (Linux 6.1.0-37-cloud-amd64 amd64) matching: {languageVersion=17, vendor=any vendor, implementation=vendor-specific, nativeImageCapable=false}. Toolchain download repositories have not been configured. What's the issue? I used to deploy another spring boot app the same way c.a. three months ago and everything was fine.

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@somebody from [Jetbrains], please fix case study link There is a broken link for an Intuit case study from https://kotlinlang.org/case-studies/?type=server-side

A small actor system written in kotlin using Coroutines. https://github.com/smyrgeorge/actor4k

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