A modern programming language that makes developers happier.

kotlinlang

Hi :slightly_smiling_face: This week I configured dokka on a project. I spent like an hour tweaking Gradle trying to figure out why the side bar was empty. It turns out one needs to load the html via a web server. Double clicking on `index.html` leaves the side bar empty. Something that would have saved me some frustration is including a `&lt;!-- please load via a web server --&gt;` HTML comment where the list should show up.

hey, thanks for sharing the feedback.

We do have an aim to improve the HTML site <https://github.com/Kotlin/dokka/issues/1795>, but I don't believe this is a high priority at present.

The need for a webserver is documented in some places (e.g. <https://kotlinlang.org/docs/dokka-html.html> says "HTML pages generated by this format need to be hosted on a web server in order to render everything correctly."), so adding a more visible message would help.

I see also this <https://github.com/Kotlin/dokka/issues/2964> which is more or less what I was suggesting