• This is a realworld backend implementation using ktor.
• It uses a mongodb client implemented using kotlin coroutines (https://github.com/soywiz/ktor-cio-clients/tree/master/ktor-client-cio-mongodb).
• This first implementation uses untyped extensible objects backed by a map using Kotlin's properties, so no reflection or serialization is used. A typed version will come later.

You have to execute a mongodb server in your machine in the default 27017 port without authentication..

You have to download ktor https://github.com/ktorio/ktor and to checkout the authenticate.optional branch and execute ./gradlew install

Now you can go to the folder ktor-backend and execute gradle run. It should run the API at http://127.0.0.1:8080/ (the / endpoint should return {"ok":"ok"}).

There is a folder react-redux-realworld-example-app containing the react sample, but pointing to the local endpoint.

You can start it with npm install && npm start.

It should open a browser pointing to http://127.0.0.1:4100.

If everything went fine, you should be able to test the backend locally.