hey I'm evaluating kilua for an existing project. ...

# kilua

[Adam Brown]

hey I'm evaluating kilua for an existing project. the server is mainly a ktor rest API for thick client applications. But I have a small web front end as well.

Currently I'm using the now deprecated kweb framework, so I need a replacement.

I'd really like to not touch the rest end points and just leave them as pure ktor routes. kweb was able to just capture any routes that were not otherwise handled, which made it work really well as just part of a larger ktor project.

can anyone think of a way to integrate kilua similarly? as just part of an existing ktor application?

[Robert Jaros]

Kweb is a server side project, so you can't just replace it with a client side application. But you can use Kilua app inside a fullstack Ktor project. Have you checked the ssr-ktor example?

[Robert Jaros]

In general this code is all you need to use single page application with Ktor:
https://github.com/rjaros/kilua-rpc/blob/main/modules/kilua-rpc-ktor-koin/src/jvmMain/kotlin/dev/kilua/rpc/RpcModules.kt#L77-L85
You just need to bundle the output files with Ktor jar. Kilua RPC gradle plugin can do it for you.

[Robert Jaros]

You will probably need to handle some routes inside you Kilua application. Use the kilua-routing module or kilua-ssr module if you want to support SSR. And to access your Ktor endpoints you can use RestClient class from the kilua-rest module.

[Adam Brown]

okay great, that looks like it'll work out, thanks!