Neton FrameworkA modern Kotlin/Native web framework

Approachable, fast, extensible. Built on Kotlin Multiplatform and KSP, compiled to a native binary — no reflection, millisecond startup.

Quick start

main.kt

Neton.run(args) {

    http {
        port = 8080
    }

    routing {
        get("/") {
            "Hello Neton!"
        }
    }
}

Native performance

Compiles to a native binary. Around 3 ms startup and 20 MB resident memory, with no JVM overhead — suitable for edge and resource-constrained deployments.

Convention over configuration

Parameter binding is inferred from the signature (path / query / body), so roughly 90% of handlers need no annotations. Routes are grouped by directory convention.

Security built in

A two-layer Authenticator + Guard architecture with JWT and mock authenticators included (sessions are yours to implement) and annotation-driven authorization.

Modular components

http, routing, security, redis, cache, database, storage, jobs, ai and logging. Install what you need and compose the rest.

Structured logging

One Logger API with JSON output, built-in traceId / spanId propagation and automatic redaction, ready for log collection pipelines.

Compile-time codegen

Controller routes, parameter binding and the Config SPI are all generated by KSP at compile time. No reflection, no runtime scanning.

Version

This documentation covers Neton 1.0.0-beta1 (Kotlin 2.4.0 / KSP 2.3.10).

Where the documentation and the code disagree, the compilable examples under neton/examples/ and the framework sources are authoritative. Please open an issue so the docs can be corrected.