I'm not really a Gradle advanced user, so this may...

# javascript

[MrPowerGamerBR]

I'm not really a Gradle advanced user, so this may sound kinda dumb, but is it possible to copy the Gradle's jsBrowserDistribution output to another project?

What I want to do is to copy the output from my :frontend module to the resources of my :backend (a ktor webserver) module

[turansky]

Here you can see example of DCE sync.

[turansky]

In common case:

val copyDist by tasks.registering(Copy::class) {
    // task path used
    from(":other-project:super-build-task")

    into("my-dist-folder")
}

[hfhbd]

New Project -> FullStack Application includes this task already

[MrPowerGamerBR]

Thanks @turansky and @hfhbd, I didn't notice that the Multiplatform task had the "copy files" task, however the multiplatform template project doesn't have multiple modules (only one module, I like keeping my stuff separate in different modules :3)

So this is the task that I made:

val copyFrontendJavaScript by registering(Copy::class) {
        val jsBrowserProductionWebpack = rootProject.allprojects.first { it.name == "frontend" }.tasks.getByName<org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.targets.js.webpack.KotlinWebpack>("jsBrowserProductionWebpack")

        from(File(jsBrowserProductionWebpack.destinationDirectory, jsBrowserProductionWebpack.outputFileName))
        into("build/resources/main/static/v3/assets/js/")
    }

It works, but it isn't as pretty and doesn't have dev mode like @turansky 😛

[hfhbd]

Not tested, but could you use:
enableFeaturePreview("TYPESAFE_PROJECT_ACCESSORS") in settings.gradle.kts

to archive this?

val jsBrowserProductionWebpack: org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.targets.js.webpack.KotlinWebpack by projects.frontend.tasks

EDIT: looks like it is not possible

[turansky]

tasks.getByPath(":frontend:jsBrowserProductionWebpack")

?

[MrPowerGamerBR]

@hfhbd tried that but it doesn't seem to work... well, IDEA doesn't auto complete and I haven't tested by using Gradle directly from the CLI so maybe it is just a IDEA issue

However @turansky's version works fine 🙂

Now I'm trying to fix some issues where if it is a clean build, the js file ends up not in the output JAR (probably something related to the task order)

[turansky]

Dependency on task required

[turansky]

You can find it my example (first link)

[MrPowerGamerBR]

I may misunderstanding what your code on the first link does, but I didn't find anywhere there where the code copies the resulting JS files from the jsBrowserProductionWebpack task to a folder within the resources folder of the JVM JAR (but maybe I'm just being dumb, I don't really know a lot about Gradle :P)

[MrPowerGamerBR]

Okay here's a better task that looks better and isn't causing issues when using doing a clean build 🙂

val jsBrowserProductionWebpack = tasks.getByPath(":frontend:jsBrowserProductionWebpack") as org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.targets.js.webpack.KotlinWebpack

    processResources {
        dependsOn(jsBrowserProductionWebpack)

        from(jsBrowserProductionWebpack.destinationDirectory) {
            into("static/v3/assets/js/")
        }
    }