What kind issues did you have?

# javascript

[gildor]

What kind issues did you have?

[aaverin]

@gildor the main issue was lack of examples and proper documentation
it might be easy to set things up for frontend-dev who knows about webpack/babel and other things, but not for mobile developer

[aaverin]

I will need to dig out my pet project, because I basically set things up, took me a few evenings, tried writing some code and came to a conclusion that it will be just much faster and easier to work with ES6 directly

[aaverin]

I’ll try to find a project and remember why exactly

[napperley]

Webpack and Babel aren't needed in order to get a basic Kotlin JS project setup.

[napperley]

Here is a unorthodox Kotlin JS example from a excellent article on developing a Firefox extension: https://medium.com/@Cypressious/your-first-firefox-web-extension-in-kotlin-348fc907915

Note how the setup is very simple, and doesn't require Webpack/Babel simple smile ✔️

[napperley]

Kotlin JS only supports ES 5 although there are plans to add support for ES 6. Babel is only compatible with JS.

[bashor]

@aaverin you can find some useful examples here:
https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-frontend-plugin/tree/master/examples
https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-examples
https://github.com/JetBrains/create-react-kotlin-app

[aaverin]

Any examples for pure NodeJS development?

[bashor]

something like this https://medium.com/@Miqubel/your-first-node-js-app-with-kotlin-30e07baa0bf7

[bashor]

https://github.com/Kotlin/ts2kt runs on node.js

[aaverin]

Thanks
I think I will make another try to write JS with Kotlin and try to write down all pain points

[aaverin]

As I said, last time I spent a few evenings for my new pet project and decided to just stay on ES

[aaverin]

Don’t remember the exact reason, unfortunately. Something with interoperability, I think

[aaverin]

and use of other JS libraries in Kotlin

[bashor]

Ok, don’t hesitate to ask any question next time. We’ll try to help.