Build elegant, responsive, and stable Java Virtual Machine-based client applications (Fat Clients) with modern user interfaces. This book introduces JavaFX as a frontend technology and utilizes Kotlin instead of Java for coding program artifacts to boost code expressiveness and maintainability. Author Peter Späth employs a hands-on approach, providing practical examples and code to demonstrate each concept. Mid-level Java programming knowledge and a basic understanding of Kotlin are the only prerequisites; experience with JavaFX and frontend coding is not essential.

After completing Frontend Development With JavaFX and Kotlin, you will be able to build frontends of mid-to-high level complexity, depending on present Java skills, and use Kotlin as a language for addressing GUI programming needs and accessing the JavaFX API.

What You Will Learn

• Create a JavaFX + Kotlin development pipeline for Gradle, Eclipse and IntelliJ
• Use JavaFX scenes, stages, and nodes/controls
• Master JavaFX event handling, effects, and animation using Kotlin
• Understand the JavaFX Concurrency Framework and Kotlin Coroutines for JavaFX

Who This Book Is For