Hi folks. I've been playing around with compose ht...

# compose-web

[stantronic]

Hi folks. I've been playing around with compose html, and have dabbled a bit in compose wasm. I was wondering if there are any resources / talks online which outline the future/vision for both of these technologies ? Particularly interested in - is Jetbrains equally committed to both; is one likely to receive more development/focus in the near future; how about interop between the two etc. Is there any such presentation available?

[Andromadus Naruto]

I've been thinking about this too. I'm looking forward to hearing some good news.

[MrPowerGamerBR]

What I've heard (by reading this channel a lot, lmao) is that they are focusing on Compose WASM for now.

However this isn't a inherently bad thing, Compose HTML already works pretty well and doesn't require new features, it does what it wants to do: Bring Compose to the DOM, anything else (like composable elements, widgets, stuff like that) is up to you

[David Herman]

Yeah, it does seem like JB is focusing almost entirely on Compose Multiplatform at the moment. It seems like a reasonable strategy assuming current resources are limited. I would say that the foundational core of the Compose HTML is really smart and impressive, but as a whole the library is still a bit undercooked at the moment.

If you're experimenting with Compose HTML, we're working on #kobweb, which is layering useful functionality on top of what's already there; you might want to check it out. One of the artifacts in the project is compose-html-ext, which is defined by the README as code that should probably exist in Compose HTML but doesn't. It fills in a bunch of CSS API gaps, provides new versions of some things with bugs fixed, and adds missing utility classes. (You could even import just that library and ignore the rest of Kobweb and still be ahead).

[stantronic]

Nice, i'll check it out 👍