Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Kotlin Blueprints

You're reading from   Kotlin Blueprints A practical guide to building industry-grade web, mobile, and desktop applications in Kotlin using frameworks such as Spring Boot and Node.js

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788390804
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Arrow right icon
Authors (3):
Arrow left icon
Akshay Chordiya Akshay Chordiya
Author Profile Icon Akshay Chordiya
Akshay Chordiya
Ashish Belagali Ashish Belagali
Author Profile Icon Ashish Belagali
Ashish Belagali
Hardik Trivedi Hardik Trivedi
Author Profile Icon Hardik Trivedi
Hardik Trivedi
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Summary


TornadoFX is a lightweight framework that you can use to quickly build beautiful desktop applications while leveraging the amazing features of Kotlin and JavaFX framework, but, as far as the capabilities are concerned, it’s a real tornado.

As you have seen in this chapter, we proved that we can create beautiful and maintainable applications. The beauty of TornadoFX is that it unlocks a whole new level of concise and beautiful code without hiding any features of JavaFX. The principal design goal is to facilitate beautiful, concise, and readable Kotlin code—a DSL-like approach—and to cut boilerplate code to the absolute minimum.

TornadoFX adds some very useful extensions to the JavaFX UI family including wizard, form, datagrid, drawers, and so on. It is compatible with other libraries you may add to your application, such as ReactFX, RxJavaFX, and Kovenant.

Right from the beginning, TornadoFX supports popular design patterns such as MVC, MVP, and MVVM. The beauty is that using them is...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image