Hello, is there a way with Compose HTML to generat...

# compose-web

[Ayfri]

Hello, is there a way with Compose HTML to generate static pages ? (if no I think I'll move my website into another framework, like the Astro JS framework)

[hfhbd]

What do you mean with static pages? HTML files without JS?

[Ayfri]

Yes exactly, or at least HTML pages with all the Composable element created (like when the page and the JS has loaded on current Compose HTML) + the JS necessary for running the code not related to HTML generation

[hfhbd]

This is a feature of #kobweb

[David Herman]

Author of #kobweb here! https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb

Please check it out, I think it's probably what you want. And let me know if you have any questions.

(Thanks @hfhbd for the callout!)

[Ayfri]

Thanks, I'll try this tomorrow then !

[Ayfri]

Hey, I'm trying kobweb so, but I'm stuck when trying to export my website, I'm getting this error in JS when opening any page :

[David Herman]

Are you opening your website directly? By clicking on the html files?

[David Herman]

If so, you can't do that -- your website needs to have a root. What does "/" mean, in other words.

The way you are supposed to visit your static files is by running kobweb run --env prod --layout static and then visiting <http://localhost:8080>

[Ayfri]

That's exactly what I was doing, running the kobweb run --env prod --layout static command

[David Herman]

Huh weird. I'll start a DM with you so we don't keep pinging #compose-web

[Arjan van Wieringen]

Why not just Kotlinx HTML?

[David Herman]

Compose is a great API for building responsive applications. It's doing A LOT for you, so for me personally, I'd want to use that instead of reinventing state management myself.