Is there a better way to make the front end kotlinJS talk to the backend Ktor than this:

You code is not communication with the backend. Your ktor sever spits out

html

Then the

js

takes it from the client side and munipulate the

dom

Maybe you mean something different when you say you need

frontend

to communicate to the

backend

You are correct... It's just a little ugly. Wondering if there is a better approach

Not sure there is a better way to hydrate the frontend but at least you can do

document.getElementById("content") ?: error("Couldnt find content element")

for better errors

That's an excellent suggestion, thanks, any others =) ...