[Backend] Kotlin + Spring-boot + gRPC + PostgreSQL

[alejandrolorefice]

Hello! 👋

I've started working on a Kotlin gRPC implementation of the real-world example.

I get the feeling that gRPC isn't as widely adopted as I think it deserves and specific documentation or examples about it are rather scarce compared to REST or GraphQL.

Also, most of the information I come across online is using Go or .NET while Kotlin is relatively rare. For example, a quick search at Google throws 400k results for "Kotlin gRPC" while I get nearly 7M and 5M if I replace Kotlin with Go or .NET, respectively.

So, hopefully, this helps thicken the gRPC 🤝 Kotlin information available and helps other people wanting to give them a try.

Cheers!

[geromegrignon]

Hello Alejandro,

Thanks for your contribution.
Promoting a project is clearly our goal.
However right now we won't be able to list it in the official RealWorld listing as based on our current specs.
Part of our contract is to ensure frontend projects can work with backend ones.

I'm keeping the idea in mind though. We already had a request for GraphQL too and due to the popularity of both of them, extending the current RealWorld project is doable. It would just need some time to do it.

[alejandrolorefice]

Hey Gerome! Yeah, I wasn't assuming full gRPC support. I plan to make it REST compatible as other gRPC implementations did. Although having also the pure gRPC interface would be very interesting indeed 🤔