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Hi, I've been developing with kotlin for over a month now, and i really like the language. I started writing a Lisp implementation in Kotlin to be hosted in a JVM System and was amazed at the development speed, "cleanliness", Java interop and extensibility of the language.

I am currently trying to use Kotlin/JS and have successfully compiled Kotlin to JS using the IntelliJ build system (through dialogs) and also using Maven (i wanted to use kotlinx.html and didn't succeed doing so using the IntelliJ build system and the kotlinx.html JAR).

As far as i understand, Gradle is the preferred build system here:

• how can I use gradle to manage my dependencies, compiling BUT without using node/webpack and generating a huge node_modules folder? I will be using Kotlin/JS as the main controller for an electron app and don't want another node_modules running around (besides, build time seems to skyrocket, where i only want to compile)
• I have other doubts regarding kotlinx.html (HTML DSL tags appear highlighted in red in IntelliJ, and they don't appear at all in the HTML body)
Is there someone i can talk to get some guidance? Thank you very much!