A Kotlin-based backend for my functional and colorful tasks app.
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From the beginning Tasks (KMM) was conceived of as a cloud-based task list app. This required implementing my own backend to store user data.
I decided early on to roll my own account system (as opposed to implementing social login) as I wanted to practice safe user secret handling.
I decided to build the backend with Ktor, as it seemed like a really great tool for server side development, and it's been quite pleasant to use thus far.
Over time, I also incorporated Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) and Quartz Scheduler to power reminders and token expiry.
The backend has changed a lot since its initial version. The biggest change by far has been incorporating Railway-Oriented Programming (ROP) to make critical code paths easier to follow.
The authentication system uses a JWT-based token to authenticate users, alongside a second refresh token that's longer lived. This design requires client applications to manually persist and refresh tokens, but is altogether easy to implement.
For code linting before each commit, change the project's git hooks directory with this command:
git config core.hooksPath hooks/You can also copy the contents of /hooks to your project's git hooks folder.