Gradle Shadow plugin

Configure the Shadow plugin

To build a Fat JAR, you need to configure the Shadow plugin first:

1. Open the build.gradle.kts file and add the plugin to the plugins block:

   plugins { id("com.github.johnrengelman.shadow") version "7.1.2" }

2. Make sure that the main application class is configured:

   application { mainClass.set("io.ktor.server.netty.EngineMain") }

Build a Fat JAR

To build a Fat JAR, open the terminal and execute the shadowJar task provided by the Shadow plugin.

When this build completes, you should see the ***-all.jar file in the build/libs directory. For example, for the fatjar project a file name is fatjar-all.jar.

Run the application

To run the built application:

1. Go to the build/libs folder in a terminal.

2. Execute the following command to run the application:

   java -jar fatjar-all.jar

3. Wait until the following message is shown:

   [main] INFO Application - Responding at http://0.0.0.0:8080

   Open the link in a browser to see a running application: