README.md

Kara is NOT SUPPORTED

Kara Web Framework

Kara is a web framework for the JVM using the Kotlin programming language. It uses Kotlin's unique syntax to allow developers to write succinct, statically-typed HTML and CSS all in one language.

For more information and documentation, check out karaframework.com.

Authors

Kara is developed by Tiny Mission. We're a small web and mobile development company and hope to use Kara to help us work faster and write better code.

Contributing

There's plenty of work left to do to make Kara a first class framework, and we'd welcome contributions. Contact andy at tinymission.com to get involved.

Continous integration and Downloads

CI is set up at TeamCity. Download latest successful build

Bugs, Suggestions and Feature Requests

All issues for Kara are tracked here

License

Kara is Open Source and licensed under the Apache Licenses, version 2.0. It can be freely used in commercial projects.

Running Sample Project

To start sample project you need:

• either download kara binary package and unpack or compile kara-dist artifact in IDEA project
• close IDEA projects
• configure Path Variable KARA_HOME in IDEA to point to kara root directory or to the output of kara-dist artifacts, i.e. <project home>/out/artifacts/kara_dist
• open samples directory
• run ../kara s command
• open demo pages at embedded web server running on http://localhost:3000

Generating new project

To start sample project you need:

• either download kara binary package and unpack or compile kara-dist artifact in IDEA project
• close IDEA projects
• configure Path Variable KARA_HOME in IDEA to point to kara root directory or to the output of kara-dist artifacts, i.e. <project home>/out/artifacts/kara_dist
• open the directory you like to start with
• run <path to kara home>/kara g project <project name> --package=<package name> --ide=idea command
• open generated project in IDEA
• use Server run configuration to start/debug your application