can some one point me to a resource or let me know...

# compose-web

[Dazai]

can some one point me to a resource or let me know how to use ktor as a backend to serve a compose-web client?

[Big Chungus]

https://github.com/mpetuska/kamp/tree/master/app

[Big Chungus]

Not compose-web client, but it doesn't matter sine ktor is just serving js

[Big Chungus]

But if you really need compose setup, I'm currently reworking that app with compose-web on another branch https://github.com/mpetuska/kamp/tree/feature%2Fcompose/app

[CLOVIS]

Essentially the idea would be to copy the JS file generated by Compose into the Ktor server's resource directory, and then tell Ktor to serve it.

Here are the exact changes I did to enable that: https://gitlab.com/arcachon-ville/formulaide/-/merge_requests/18/diffs
My case is a Kotlin React app, not Kotlin Compose, but it's exactly the same.

[Dazai]

thanks for the helpful examples. do you guys have any examples for routing? like if i click a button on the home page, how do I want to make it take me to the about page/component instead?

[Big Chungus]

Use react-router-dom

[Dazai]

or if i want to call an endpoint with query parameters or something? right now i'm running into cors errors trying to use ktor to get a response from a website like ktor.io in the example

[Dazai]

oh will that work well with compose?

[Dazai]

i've never used it

[Big Chungus]

Oh wait, it's compose. Then just use hash routing and render your tree depending on parsed hash path

[Big Chungus]

Bit manual, though

[Dazai]

https://github.com/hfhbd/routing-compose
this lib looks like it could work pretty well

[hfhbd]

Often it does 😄 BTW the idea of server side rending, like the old days with PHP, is not (yet, maybe never) possible with Compose: https://ktor.io/docs/html-dsl.html#html_response You do have to create a new Gradle module, implement your JS application, create the executable js file and serve it with Ktor. (of course you could rendering your index.html file with Ktor...) The packing could be done by Gradle tasks, see the official Ktor server templates created by the Kotlin plugin (new project, Kotlin, server template).