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Hello. I'm planning to share some Code between Backend (Kotlin/JVM, Gradle) and Frontend (Existing Javascript Application, NPM + webpack). I thought using the kotlin multiplatform capabilities to build a library that works on both platforms was a good catch for this problem. I just created a multiplatform gradle-project from IntelliJ and it builds for alle three platforms. But the output for the javascript target is a jar file with the compiled javascript code embedded. I'd like to use the generated javascript code in my existing webapp. Is there any way to configure gradle to output just a commonjs or umd module that I can directly require via webpack? Thanks a lot!

As I remember there is some task that only compiles to js

depends on how you want integrate it to your build pipeline

There is kotlin-frontend-plugin that allows to build webpack bundle
<https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-frontend-plugin>

<@U4TFYHA8K> In most cases the `.js` output is located in `build/classes/kotlin/js/main/&lt;module-name&gt;`

You can tell the compiler to emit commonjs or umd by configuring the `moduleKind` attribute: <https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/using-gradle.html#attributes-specific-for-js>