[[kotlin-resources]]
= Resources

We recommend the following resources for people learning how to build applications with
Kotlin and the Spring Framework:

* {kotlin-docs}[Kotlin language reference]
* https://slack.kotlinlang.org/[Kotlin Slack] (with a dedicated #spring channel)
* {stackoverflow-spring-kotlin-tags}[Stackoverflow, with `spring` and `kotlin` tags]
* https://play.kotlinlang.org/[Try Kotlin in your browser]
* https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/[Kotlin blog]
* https://kotlin.link/[Awesome Kotlin]


[[examples]]
== Examples

The following Github projects offer examples that you can learn from and possibly even extend:

* https://github.com/spring-guides/tut-spring-boot-kotlin[tut-spring-boot-kotlin]: Sources of {spring-site}/guides/tutorials/spring-boot-kotlin/[the official Spring + Kotlin tutorial]
* https://github.com/sdeleuze/spring-boot-kotlin-demo[spring-boot-kotlin-demo]: Regular Spring Boot and Spring Data JPA project
* https://github.com/mixitconf/mixit[mixit]: Spring Boot, WebFlux, and Reactive Spring Data MongoDB
* https://github.com/sdeleuze/spring-kotlin-functional[spring-kotlin-functional]: Standalone WebFlux and functional bean definition DSL
* https://github.com/sdeleuze/spring-kotlin-fullstack[spring-kotlin-fullstack]: WebFlux Kotlin fullstack example with Kotlin2js for frontend instead of JavaScript or TypeScript
* https://github.com/spring-petclinic/spring-petclinic-kotlin[spring-petclinic-kotlin]: Kotlin version of the Spring PetClinic Sample Application