does anyone know of wrappers for material-UI or bo...

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[Nikky]

does anyone know of wrappers for material-UI or bootstrap around kotlinx-html ?

seems like what i find is all just for react or in kotlin-js context

in this project i'd like to reduce the amount of js and just generate html and css using typesafe builders

[spand]

• Isnt material ui pretty much js based?
• What do you expect a bootstrap wrapper to do for you (isnt it only classes?)

[Nikky]

yeah pretty much would like to have a DSL for creating html with the correct classes

[Robert Jaros]

on JVM side?

[Nikky]

yes, from kotlinx-html would make this a lot simpler

since i need nothing else that js would do anyways, i'd rather just build the html on the jvm side

[Robert Jaros]

I don't know such solution

[Robert Jaros]

But in my opinion (a bit non-objective as the creator of KVision 😉), this is exactly what Kotlin/JS was designed for ;-)

[Nikky]

in that case i need to somehow serialize the data (via json) and send to the frontend that runs js
i hoped i could have it all on jvm only

[Sam Garfinkel]

@Nikky What are you trying to achieve? If you want the browser to execute your code, you need to embed/serve JS or use KotlinJS to transpile to it.

[Nikky]

no, i do not need to execute any javascript, just need to build html, the required js is precompiled anyways

[Czar]

I would just extend kotlinx-html
Also there's this: https://github.com/sametkurumahmut/kotlin-mdl-js
Looks outdated, but you could use it as an example and create your own.

[Nikky]

this is for kotlin2js the components use document and such to create themself
the readme seems to be outdated

[Nikky]

but at least most of the work for mdl would be already done

[Czar]

Yes, but as I said, you can use it as an example.

[Sam Garfinkel]

You’re using Ktor or Spring or something to actually run the server, right? You’ll probably need to write your own DSL that extends kotlinx.html . Shouldn’t be too hard. Include the static CSS in the html’s header, then just wrap the div extension to add the proper CSS class.

[Nikky]

i might try that, or just throw the full package with react as frontend at it

[Nikky]

i am using ktor indeed

[Sam Garfinkel]

Unfortunately I believe you might need to write these extensions yourself.