for those who dare I would love to hear your thoug...

# javascript

[Talon]

for those who dare I would love to hear your thoughts on a web app library I built out inspired by Elm https://github.com/talon/nimble

[Trevor]

I'lll see if I can fiddle with it tonight!

[Talon]

amazing! happy to answer questions if you have any just ping me

[pabl0rg]

@Trevor did you try it? How did it go?

[Trevor]

Actually I haven't had the chance :(

[pabl0rg]

I tried it... followed the instructions (roughly: download zip from github, enter unzipped folder run ./gradlew -t run) and got this:

[Talon]

@pabl0rg ftfy! Got it running locally and pushed my updates up should be ready to rock

[Talon]

you could add resources/main/ to the require call in Main.kt, the newest version of kotlin changed the layout of the files in build it seems

[pabl0rg]

I tried again and now I get some webpack errors. I have my doubts about Kotlin for js development b/c having to deal with both gradle + webpack means there will be headaches for sure. Did you consider using google's closure compiler?

[pabl0rg]

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[Talon]

yeah I'd love to get rid of webpack. the full kotlin-frontend dependency is the hardest part of this whole stack (not a fan). I've gotta either contribute to that or write a simpler version.

Thanks for trying tho @pabl0rg I'd be happy to help you debug further if you still wanna give the library itself a try.

I've been dogfooding it by building out my personal site https://github.com/talon/lab/tree/master/projects/theghostinme/src/main/kotlin/webapp

in the meantime I'll keep thinking about how to make getting started easier!