:wave: Hi there! I've been a Kotlin fan way back s...

# announcements

[mike.holler]

👋 Hi there! I've been a Kotlin fan way back since M11 or so and am now starting to play with multi-platform. We've got some functions we'd like to share between JS and JVM runtimes, but we already have a JS-based application that we don't want to re-write in Kotlin quite yet. I've done the tutorial here [1], which is fantastic, but I'm not sure how I can use NPM to install it directly and call into the Kotlin library from my JavaScript project. Can anyone offer any pointers? I've maven-published the library, but I see no mention of NPM or how to use a kotlin library with NPM in this tutorial.

[1]: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/mpp/multiplatform-library.html

[mike.holler]

I found this post from last year, but it's still not as clear as I was hoping:

https://medium.com/swlh/kotlin-to-jar-and-npm-87a5b0ca2dff

[Big Chungus]

Here's an example of how to publish to npm https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.html/blob/master/build.gradle.kts#L306

[mike.holler]

@Big Chungus that's super helpful thank you. Surprising how much additional code is needed. Hopefully kotlin will bundle a separate publish task in the future.

[Big Chungus]

We'll it's promoting its own ecosystem, which works flawlessly with gradle metadata

[Big Chungus]

But it shouldn't be hard to write a third party plugin for kotlin npm publishing