Hard Mock Cafe

One of the hot topics of the KotlinConf 2017 keynote in San Francisco was multiplatform development with Kotlin, Kotlin/Native and Kotlin/JS. The latter has been demonstrated using the Kotlin wrappers for React, which allows you to write React apps using Kotlin. This sounds promising, since it allows you to write both (web-based) front- and backends using one language. In this three-part article on Medium I’d like to give an introduction to Kotlin-React.

The microservice architecture allows us to partition an application into tiny sub-applications, which are easy to maintain and to deploy. This pattern is already widely adopted to implement backend systems. But the frontend is usually still one large application, at least when it comes to deployment. This article describes some thoughts on how to address this problem. The microservice architecture is en vogue, everybody seems to know all about it, and feels like having to spread the truth. Including me ;-) But honestly, we are just about to learn how to cope with this kind of architecture. I guess we are like a kid that just managed to make some first steps, when we suddenly try to start running… that’s usually the moment when you fall over your own feet. Microservices are no free lunch, it definitely has its price (that’s the part we have already learned). For developers it feels uncomfortable, since instead of developing one application, they have to deal with dozens or hundreds. U...