Can I serve my compose application using ktor? I w...

# compose-web

[Dragos Rachieru]

Can I serve my compose application using ktor?
I want to create a server that hosts a rest API for all platforms and also the web version

Right now I only succeeded in running the compose application as a kotlin/js application

[hfhbd]

Yes. The resulting JS files are plain normal static JS files you can serve like any other static file with Ktor (or any other platform like GitHub pages, etc.)

[Dragos Rachieru]

Is Github pages free?

[Dragos Rachieru]

I use compose web using canvas tho

[hfhbd]

Yes, if your pages will be public accessible.

[Dragos Rachieru]

Do I have to use browser instead of nodejs?

[Dragos Rachieru]

I still don't understand the difference between them

[Pablichjenkov]

To deploy a static JS webpage you don't need nodejs, just research how to serve files with ktor and deploy ktor in any cloud hosting alternative. I use Google AppEngine but there is many.
If no need ktor, just a JS webpage you can use firebase hosting, is free, however a custom domain and features like that you have to pay.

[David Herman]

Creating a ktor server that serves static files is easy! Check out: https://ktor.io/docs/serving-static-content.html

If you're using GHP however, all you need to do is check in the html / js files to the right place and it will serve them for you.

[Dragos Rachieru]

Where does gradle generate the static files for ktor?

[David Herman]

My recommendation to figure out what Gradle is doing is by going into your project, running ./gradlew clean, and then running ./gradlew build. Then, search your build/ folder for *.js files.