Hey guys, what is the status of Compose HTML, is i...

# compose-web

[magnumrocha]

Hey guys, what is the status of Compose HTML, is it still in development/maintenance? or is something that has no focus (by JetBrains)?

[Igor Demin]

It is maintained, but no new features are planned in the near future

[magnumrocha]

ok, got it, btw, my original thinking was: Should I prefer to use kotlinx-html or Compose HTML?

[Igor Demin]

Compose HTML is more heavyweight, but provides a different approach (reactive instead of imperative).

kotlinx-html is just a convenient wrapper over the DOM API. It requires more boilerplate in complex applications.

[Md Sadique Inam]

Can you give a link for compose html, are talking about material-web

[magnumrocha]

You can find the library here:
https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.jetbrains.compose.html/html-core

[magnumrocha]

if you want to setup it on your project:

plugins {
    kotlin("multiplatform")
    kotlin("plugin.compose")
    id("org.jetbrains.compose")
}

...

kotlin {
    js {
        browser {
            commonWebpackConfig {
                cssSupport {
                    enabled.set(true)
                }
            }
        }
        binaries.executable()
    }

    sourceSets {
        jsMain.dependencies {
            implementation(compose.html.core)
            implementation(compose.runtime)
        }
        
        commonTest.dependencies {
            implementation(kotlin("test"))
        }
    }
}