At my work we are considering using Kotlin as the ...

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[freshlyground]

At my work we are considering using Kotlin as the language for creating front ends to our products.

For my work to embrace Kotlin fully it's critial that it will be usable with some popular framework or library.
As I experience, JetBrains have already made some support for using React:
https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-wrappers/tree/master/kotlin-react
https://github.com/JetBrains/create-react-kotlin-app


I've also seen the kotlin-frontend-plugin: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-frontend-plugin.

Does anyone have any guideance on which road to take?
Should I use the create-react-kotlin-app or would it possible to use kotlin-frontend-plugin to setup a similar react project like the create-react-kolin-app do?

I'm coming from the Java sphere, so personally I would like it to be possible to develop with the kotlin-frontend-plugin. However the kotlin-frontend-plugin seems a bit unfinished? and low prioritized?

Does any one have experience or knowledge to share that could help me
in choosing a development environment for using Kotlin and React?
@Leonid Khachaturov @cy
Thanks!

[jean]

Hi,
we are using KotljnJS in a big application. We have built custom framework using Kotlin DSL. All from scratch. Just occasionally we use some lib like jquery or some charting. With Kotlin Type Safe builders there is no so much need for using frameworks like Angular/React.

[deviant]

i would use CRKA. frontend plugin is really slow at the moment. but if you need multiplatform support you will stick to gradle+plugin