I would be interested to hear how your conversion ...

# kilua

[pambrose]

I would be interested to hear how your conversion went.

[Robert Jaros]

The application was quite old (not updated since KVision 5.7.1 - 2.5 years ago), it was using simple hash based routing, plain state flow for state management and some components not available in Kilua (e.g. bootstrap-fileinput, handlebars templates). It was also using some simple spring Thymeleaf templating.

[Robert Jaros]

What was done:
• rewrite the whole project layout (gradle version catalog, new plugins, webMain sources set)
• modify a bit the backend code (replace KVision fullstack services with Kilua RPC and KVision date time types with kotlinx.datetime)
• redesign frontend with Ballast state management
• move frontend to history api routing with Kilua SSR router
• port the UI components to Kilua

[Robert Jaros]

The most challenging part was probably the forms. KVision forms are more integrated with Bootstrap (e.g. you get horizontal layout out of the box). With Kilua I had to implement some custom composables. I had to also redesign Kilua form validation to support sophisticated use cases needed by the application.

[Robert Jaros]

The other challenging part was the thymeleaf templating. I had to make Kilua SSR more customizable to be able to use dynamically generated index.html as the SSR base template.

[Robert Jaros]

All Kilua changes are released with 0.0.8.

[Robert Jaros]

The app itself need to be tested a bit and should be released soon.

[Andromadus Naruto]

Thanks for sharing this important feedback. 👍🏾