I'm working on a project with an online CMS, and a...

# compose-web

[martmists]

I'm working on a project with an online CMS, and as part of that I want to be able to allow custom scripting in Kotlin/JS. Is there any way to apply Compose on those kotlin scripts or would I need to bundle all of gradle and configurations for that?

[Adam S]

it’s possible to apply compiler plugins with some hacks https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-47384, so you could try looking into applying the Compose plugin the same way

Alternatively, create a custom scripting host https://kotlinlang.org/docs/custom-script-deps-tutorial.html

But I suspect that IntelliJ will struggle, even if one of those two options is compilable

[martmists]

Hmm, I haven't been able to find how to set this up with a JS host. Do you know where I can find documentation on this?

[Norbi]

"JS host" - I think scripting is JVM-only...

[martmists]

Hmm, so there's no way to let users write composable functions for web that get compiled and executed at runtime?

[Adam S]

I think it would be possible, but certainly not easy! Try looking through how the Kotlin Playground works https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-playground

It has a ‘JUnit’ mode, so it’s possible to add new dependencies. I’m just not certain how it will react to adding a compiler plugin. You could open a feature request?

[hfhbd]

It does not work in the browser, the Kotlin compiler is JVM only. The playground sends the input to a JVM backend, which compiles and executes the code, and returns the results. You could do the same though.

[martmists]

Yeah I'm currently looking through it, though I'm unsure how I'm supposed to add dependencies to the classpath when I've added them as implementation on the backend

[martmists]

It feels like the best solution is to just create a temporary directory and set up an entire gradle project to build the JS file