Hello! I have pretty much 0 (valuable) web dev exp...
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Edgars
10/14/2018, 12:04 PMHello! I have pretty much 0 (valuable) web dev experience. I don't know much about back- and front-end frameworks and whatnot. So pardon me if this is a stupid question, but how would I go about making a good-looking website using Ktor? From what I gather, Ktor is what I want for, say, routing, business logic, etc. What do I need to make a pretty front-end?
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napperley
10/14/2018, 8:45 PMAt a minimum you will need a basic lib to generate/manage HTML, and a CSS framework to easily handle styling and layout. Manually handcrafting a lot of CSS is pure madness (understanding CSS/web layout is a black art ✨).
napperley
10/14/2018, 8:48 PMSome good options are KotlinX HTML ( https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.html ), and Bootstrap (CSS framework - https://getbootstrap.com/ )
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napperley
10/14/2018, 8:53 PMFor more advanced web front-ends you might want to consider using a third party Kotlin JS front-end lib/framework (eg KVision - https://github.com/rjaros/kvision ).