springboot-kotlin-coroutines-demo

Reactive Spring Boot with Kotlin Coroutines

This code supports a blog post I wrote, and implements a reactive counter using Spring Boot, Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, and Redis.

Getting The Code

git clone https://github.com/tginsberg/springboot-reactive-kotlin-coroutines.git

Build Information

Technologies used in this project:

1. Java 11 (but 8 will work fine)
2. Spring Boot 2.3 (but 2.2.x will work fine)
3. Kotlin 1.3.72
4. Gradle 6.3

To run this project, you'll need:

1. Redis installed and ready to use on the default port
2. A cursory understanding of reactive concepts and Spring Boot

Running the server

./gradlew bootRun

Endpoints

Purpose	Method	URL	Accept Header
Current state of counter	GET	/	application/json
Counter event stream	GET	/stream	text/event-stream
Increment counter	PUT	/up	application/json
Decrement counter	PUT	/down	application/json

Link Article: https://todd.ginsberg.com/post/springboot-reactive-kotlin-coroutines/