CollegeAppBackend

Backend and other services for CollegeAppIIITN using Ktor 💙

Plugins Used:

• Server: Netty
• Authentication: JWT Token
• Serialization: Ktor Serialization & GSON
• EngineMain as main runner
• Koin for dependency Injection
• MongoDB as primary Database: KMongo (a kotlin toolkit for mongo)
• Kotlin Coroutines
• CORS
• Call Logging: Ktor Server Call Logging
• Content Negotiation
• Gradle KTS

Hosted on Heroku (Official documentation)

Steps other than the documentation to host on heroku:

• make sure heroku CLI is installed
• setup env variables
• adding the Procfile for the script along with the correct build/install/<package-name> location

MONGO_URL = <mongo db hosted connect url, atlas, aws anything>
JWT_SECRET = <some jwt secret here>
PORT = <4200>

and some other env variables if you want

• deployment works only on main and master branches on heroku