kotlin-tools

Kotlin tools

Kotlin tools is a collection of useful tools for developing Kotlin applications and libraries.

Gradle Plugins

Kotlin tools includes several Gradle plugins to help simplify building applications and libraries using Kotlin, including Kotlin multiplatform.

• Build CLI applications implemented using Kotlin/JVM, optionally building native executables.
• Build CLI applications implemented using Kotlin native.
• Build UI applications implemented using Kotlin.
• Build libraries implemented using Kotlin.

Libraries

Kotlin tools includes several Kotlin multiplatform libraries:

• stream-io: Extends Kotlinx IO to add capabilities for streams, for example access to the process’ stdin, stdout and stderr as a source or a sink.
• file-io: Extends Kotlinx IO to add further file system capabilities.
• file-fixtures: Helps write tests that access the file system.
• process: Provides APIs to fork processes.
• cli-args: A lightweight CLI argument parser.
• cli-app: A small framework to simplify implementing CLI applications, including parsing CLI arguments.

Repository layout

The source tree is arranged as follows:

• local-plugins contains Gradle plugins that are used to build the other Gradle plugins.
  • Also contains some Kotlin libraries that are used by the Gradle plugins.
• libs contains some Kotlin libraries.
• test-apps contains some sample applications and libraries that use the Gradle plugins.