at this location in this kotlin javascript tutoria...

# javascript

[Dalinar]

at this location in this kotlin javascript tutorial he is typing src= and magically gets an out folder to choose, how do I configure my kotlin javascript module to do that? (my out is located on another drive, I "Inherit project compile output path" in the module) I can't figure out the correct path to use in my src= for my code to run (I get 404 not found errors in the browser)

https://youtu.be/rRC5m1U5snM?t=154▾

Do you think that intellij web server requires out to be in the same folder as the src folder?

[konsoletyper]

Do you think that intellij web server requires out to be in the same folder as the src folder?

I'm not sure, but AFAK, IntelliJ built-in web server serves files from the directory where html file is located and from all subdirectories. If your output location is in another drive, it won't be served

[Dalinar]

I just tried it, got it to work by moving out into the same folder as src.. It's a bit ugly this way (having output in my project folder) but at least it is working now

[konsoletyper]

Don't keep your index.html in src folder. The structure might be like this:
* index.html
* src/*.kt
* build/...
Where build is output dir where compiler puts JS files.

[konsoletyper]

What's the problem to have output in project folder? I can see no ugliness in it

[Dalinar]

yes index is on same level as "src" and "out" now

[Dalinar]

well sometimes i like to 7zip the project folder as another backup.. I do it for offsite backup because 7zip files are small, I can modify it later to ignore that subfolder but I have a bunch of modules, easiest way is just to put output in another location. Anyhow I just always like to keep my output files outside of the project folder

[konsoletyper]

You can use github as a backup media 🙂

[konsoletyper]

Or just keep your code under git and use git archive

[konsoletyper]

Of course, `out`/`build`/`target` dir should be in .gitignore

[napperley]

Now have confirmation (confirms my suspicions) that IntelliJ has its own web server, which has been used successfully with Kotlin JS and Gradle Kotlin DSL (https://github.com/gradle/kotlin-dsl). 💎