WellBe

Introduction

The WellBe application is a social media-type app built on Ktor framework that allows users to exchange various content connected with mental health, motivation, psychology, and improving oneself. Users can share posts with texts, images, videos, and links, as well as discuss the content in the comment section

See our tutorial posts:

Part 1 - How to Build an Android Wellness App with the Ktor Framework. Part I: Backend

Part 2 - How to Build an Android Wellness App with the Ktor Framework. Part II: Android

You can see out wellbe_android, and notice how Ktor works on client side, with same plugins principes.

Ktor is an asynchronous framework for creating microservices, web applications, and more.

• Kotlin and Coroutines
• Lightweight and Flexible
• Easy to set up
• Easy to deploy and maintain
• Assemble project only with plugins which you need
• Can fully replace Spring Boot
• Growing community, sufficient documentation

Features include:

• Registration/Login
• Update user/avatar
• Create/Edit/Remove post
• Feed/Popular/Favourite/My posts
• Like/Unlike post
• Chats list/Join room/Leave Room
• Send message (Notify chat members by WebSockets)
• Search Filter and Pagination for posts requests
• Deploy with Docker or Amazon Elastic Beanstalk with Fat JAR

Ktor Features include:

• JWTToken Security
• WebSockets
• Routing
• StatusPages
• ContentNegotiation
• Ktorm ORM
• Koin for Ktor

Building

Before launching you need to adjust application.conf file :

• on demand change application port ktor { deployment { port = 8082 port = ${?PORT} }
• setup db with your own URl, Username, Password db { jdbcUrl = "jdbc:mysql://***********" jdbcDriver = "com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver" dbUser = "***********" dbPassword = "***********" }
• provide secret key for jwtToken jwt { secret = "***********"
• replace AWS credentials with you own aws{ accessKey = "***********" secretKey = "***********" }

With IntelliJ IDEA

The easiest way to build is to install IntelliJ IDEA with Gradle. Once installed, then you can import the project into IntelliJ IDEA:

Import project with Git and Run from WellBeApplication main enty point

Then, Gradle will do everything for you.

With Gradle

https://ktor.io/docs/fatjar.html