If searching for suitable Kotlin Multiplatform lib...

# announcements

[Alina Dolgikh [JB]]

If searching for suitable Kotlin Multiplatform libraries feels like a chore, we’ve got exciting news for you! 🎉

Introducing the alpha version of klibs.io – a web service that speeds up and simplifies discovering KMP libraries that best meet your specific needs.

Spend less time searching and more time building! You can discover libraries by purpose and supported platforms (JVM, Android JVM, Wasm, JS, and Kotlin/Native).

👉 Learn more about klibs.io in our latest blog post and give it a try!

S Join the conversation and share your feedback in a dedicated #C081AF4JK70 channel.

[CLOVIS]

Still won't index projects that aren't hosted on GitHub…

Also, why a new tool? https://package-search.jetbrains.com/ is good already?

[Daniel Weidensdörfer]

+1 for dark mode

[Jacob Ras]

Very cool! Great to see an official collection for this. Categories like Network, DI, DateTime would be useful to be browsable.

[Nikolay Pachkov]

Hi @CLOVIS, thank you for your questions!

Right now, we’re focusing on enhancing the metadata quality of GitHub-indexed projects and improving the overall user experience. Expanding our indexing beyond GitHub is on our roadmap and is recognized as an important future improvement.

klibs.io will replace the package search website as a platform specialized on KMP libraries aiming to deliver more relevant data and a more intuitive search experience.

[CLOVIS]

@Nikolay Pachkov I'll be clear. When KLibs was a personal side-project, not indexing all libraries was acceptable. Now that it is an official JetBrains product, and officially recommended over PackageSearch, this decision is now a clear signal that JetBrains doesn't consider non-GitHub projects to be welcome in the ecosystem.

90% of the information displayed by KLibs is available in POM metadata. Leaving the other fields blank for non-GitHub projects is acceptable, but completely hiding open source libraries just because one or two metadata fields are missing is not.

[Jacob Ras]

Any plans to add the AndroidX KMP libraries? I checked DataStore and Room but don't see them listed

[kqr]

@CLOVIS imho that's exaggeration

[louiscad]

Ne sois pas trop français, c'est acceptable mais dommage, et ça va certainement bouger si tu demandes gentiment @CLOVIS 😉

[CLOVIS]

@louiscad Un jour j'espère bien… Mais bon c'est le ticket #1 et il va fêter ses 1 an à la fin du mois 😅

[Stefan Oltmann]

My OCD kicks in. 🙈 Please align the texts and center the images. 😅

[Stefan Oltmann]

Wait… klibs is not open source? 🤔
It just has a GitHub project for issue tracking. 👀

[Max]

Great move!

Found one important issue:
Some libs like Koin were not displayed to me when setting the Android (JVM) filter, even though they do support it. it is displayed when only JVM is displayed.

[David Nedrow]

I don’t see anything for Apple platforms in any of the libraries, though I know for a fact ktor and koin can be used in multi platform projects with iOS support.

Since multi platform doesn’t guarantee the existence of support for iOS, etc., it would be nice to be able to filter for the ones that do.