How do i package a kotlin/js front end app with a ...

# javascript

[Cru]

How do i package a kotlin/js front end app with a backend spring boot application.
Currently, I have both application developed separately. And I have to manually copy the kotlin/js distribution into the resources directory of the spring boot application. which feel like a bit of manual labor. Is there a way to integrate both into a single module?
I know about kotlin multiplatform but I have no idea how will it behave with spring boot gradle plugin.

[CLOVIS]

You can create a Gradle task that copies the files from one project to another: https://gitlab.com/opensavvy/formulaide/-/blob/legacy/server/build.gradle.kts#L87

(this is a prototype, to make it a proper task you should create it with register instead of copy , and you should name the task outputs instead of hard-coding the directories, but you get the idea)

[Cru]

I could do that. But, I am trying to figure out a more elegant solution.

[CLOVIS]

What would be "more elegant"? That's exactly what you asked.

[Cru]

More elegant as in finding a way where one gradle module is being used.

[CLOVIS]

If you have a backend and a frontend, it seems normal to me to use two modules? They are not two implementations of the same thing, they are completely different modules.

[Big Chungus]

You can just add js output dir to backend module resources directly

[Big Chungus]

But if you insist on a single module you can do something like this instead https://github.com/mpetuska/kamp/blob/master/app/build.gradle.kts#L103

[andylamax]

I do discourage single module approach

[Big Chungus]

Me too

[Cru]

Thanks everyone.