kotlinx.html

I kinda like kotlinx.html in Kotlin; it's an eDSL for writing HTML in actual Kotlin. So I can put break points in my template code. It's a tiny bit slower than string-with-some-interpolation type of template libraries; but it's so little that it's a price I'm willing to pay. Also there's more impact on compile times than with string-with-some-interpolation type of template libraries. The typesafety you get is what you already have in Kotlin, and there a little extra in that you cannot nest certain HTML-elements in certain other elements (adhering to the HTML spec). You can come up with your own elements and attributes, but the ones that are in the HMTL-spec are usually available in kotlinx.html as well (and thus can be auto-completed). A large part of this library is generated from the actual HTML spec. Claude Code seems to have not probl

Kotlin was originally designed for running on the JVM, so it is generally object-oriented, but the language and the standard library allow for and encourage a functional coding style. Kotlin is well-suited for DSLs, especially declarative ones (see kotlinx.html[0]). [0] https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.html

Thanks for sharing, I really like projects like this. And the website is really informative. I find it less of a new language and more of a JS preprocessor, removing lots of the cruft and integrating XML-tags and CSS in a very neat way. What I miss: 1) I feel the web is shifting to more type checking. TS, Elm, Kotlin.js... I personally also prefer more typesafety, especially if the project grows in LOC/team size. 2) Compared to JSX, Imba does a much better job in integrating adjacent technologies. Though I much prefer these to be integrated in an eDSL fashion. For example how Elm does HTML templating (in Elm) or Kotlinx.html[1]. Just taste i guess. Good luck with yr project! [1]: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.html

Elm + elm-ui[1] (dont worry about CSS so much) + generated Elm client lib from GraphQL schema + Hasura (GraphQL over Postgres) + Postgres => strong type safety from db schema to frontend with SPA-first workflow; possibly add ReactAdmin[2] to the mix if that sort of thing is needed. Rust + Actix + Yew (Rust browser framework compiling to WASM) => also verrrry nice vor SPA-first! Slightly more traditional: Kotlin and jOOQ on the server side. I also tend to let go of the HTML syntax lately, by using templating eDSLs such as in Elm, or in Rust's Maud[3], or in Kotlin's kotlinx.html or HtmlFlow. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie-gqwSHQr0 [2]: https://github.com/hasura/ra-data-hasura [3]: https://maud.lambda.xyz/ [4]: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.html [5]: https://github.com/xmlet/HtmlFlow

The object syntax example looks very like what is already possible in Kotlin: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.html html { body { div { a("https://kotlinlang.org") { target = ATarget.blank +"Main site" } } } }

Ah, that's unfortunate. At least with React (and Mithril) you can use it from pure JavaScript, which lets you replace JSX with Kotlin's DSL[1] for HTML. [1] https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.html/blob/master/README.md

> use full-featured Swift to output HTML ... a hint of something huge and possibly disruptive to come. This technique has been here for a while with Kotlin and its kotlinx.html library: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.html#dom I used it recently on a small project (server-side on the JVM) and might use it the client-side as well (compiled to JS) – you can implement adapters to integrate with your JS framework of choice.

Kotlin may be a nice language but its HTML library: https://github.com/kotlin/kotlinx.html ... is an abomination.

I started by checking how you can write HTML using Kotlin DSL. Here is the source code https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.html Now, I have to generate different languages once the DSL is finalized. To achieve this I use Flask framework architecture. There we have routes with HTML templates. Here each generator has its own templates.