Setting up dependencies for building RESTful services

In this recipe, we will lay the foundation for developing the RESTful service. We will see how to set up dependencies and run our first SpringBoot web application. SpringBoot provides great support for Kotlin, which makes it easy to work with Kotlin. So let's get started.

Getting ready

We will be using IntelliJ IDEA and Gradle build system. If you don't have that, you can get it from https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/.

How to do it…

Let's follow the given steps to set up the dependencies for...