Hey all, I'm about to do something for the first t...

# kobweb

[David Herman]

Hey all, I'm about to do something for the first time in Kobweb history -- announce a beta ahead of a release.

The current beta version is 0.18.0-beta05. Update your project's libs.versions.toml to try it out (but read the rest of this thread first! And maybe hold back if you're in the middle of some big changes on your site)

[David Herman]

This release will contain a pretty widespread update to how Kobweb styling works. Some good news: old code should still work for a while, and migration for most people should be easy and hopefully even trivial. But after you update, expect some warnings until you've migrated.

The latest version of Kobweb comes with a new Gradle task you should run first, ./gradlew kobwebMigrateToCssStyle (you probably want to do this in a clean branch). It's much better than nothing but not 100% perfect, so if people run into any issues, you are encouraged to bring them up here.

These changes are something that a core contributor and I have been talking about and working on in the background for the better part of eight months(!!!). Curious people can read here for more information: https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb/blob/main/docs/css-style.md

Thanks for reading this far! If you can and are willing to try this latest beta, we would appreciate any feedback before this feature otherwise releases as-is sometime early next week.