Re:Kotlin for JavaScript
by jarl-ragnar on Sunday March 27, 2022 @04:55AM
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No idea. I think the demo schedule drove him to find something that he could get working.
To be fair, I think he was fighting not just Kotlin JS but using React within it and his own lack of web technology experience being predominantly an Android dev.
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Yeah I don't think you are going to get far with React + Kotlin/JS if you haven't used React before.
Maybe he could try again with Jetpack Compose for JS? Then he can use his Android knowledge for the UI and there is less complications with bridging Kotlin code in JS/typescript. To be fair though, Jetpack compose for web is quite new so there is not yet a big ecosystem.
We use it in production and saves us quite some time sharing code with the backend.
I can imagine Kotlin JS takes some effort since it improved a lot but also changed quite a bit throughout the years. Kotlin Slack helped me a lot through this phase.