Kotlin monthly wrap up - June 2021

Hi, I'm Jean-Michel, a Kotlin fan like you! At the end of each month, I'll be showcasing some great posts, projects and insights from the Kotlin community, right here on DEV.to.

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Among the popular articles of the months, here are those I've read and can recommend:

Advanced Kotlin Collection Functionality

Sebastian Aigner for Kotlin ・ Jun 14 ・ 10 min read

#kotlin #programming #android #productivity

In a Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile project, how do you improve interoperability with from one side your coroutines written in Kotlin, and on the other side your Swift code using RxSwift? Russel Wolf from TouchLab has answers and a GitHub repo SwiftCoroutines

Working with Kotlin Coroutines and RxSwift

Russell Wolf for Touchlab ・ Jun 15 '20 ・ 8 min read

#kotlin #kotlinmultiplatform #ios

Kotlin Coroutines and Swift, revisited

Russell Wolf for Touchlab ・ Jun 4 ・ 6 min read

#kotlin #kotlinmultiplatform #swift

If you are interested in server-side GraphQL, my article made it to the most popular articles of the month.

It shows that with Spring Boot + Kotlin + Coroutines + GraphQL-java-kickstart, you can build a GraphQL Gateway with a minimum of boilerplate.

How to build a GraphQL Gateway with Spring Boot and Kotlin

Jean-Michel Fayard 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇸🇨🇴 ・ Jun 14 ・ 6 min read

#tutorial #kotlin #graphql #serverless

If you enjoy a deep dive into technical topics, you will enjoy this post from Andrei Shikov explaining how the Kotlin compiler works under the hood, how it produces IR-code and binaries on different platforms, and how you can leverage that to build a compiler plugin.

Kotlin compiler plugins and binaries on multiplatform

Andrei Shikov ・ May 31 ・ 8 min read

#kotlin #compiler #plugin #compose

In another deeply technical article, Zach Klippenstein continues his series on Jetpack Compose. Here he shows how Jetpack Compose's snapshot system allows managing mutable state and writing code that is reactive by default. He explains thederivedStateOf() function, an essential tool to have in your tool to ensure that data flows efficiently through your programs while keeping them reactive.