A quick question about a full-stack dev in IDEA: I...

# multiplatform

[Not Me]

A quick question about a full-stack dev in IDEA: I created a multiplatform “Full-Stack Web Application” in IDEA - now I’m wondering what the quickest path to a sane development experience is? Surely a full “production” rebuild for every change isn’t the way to go?

[Marc Knaup]

There are no good solutions yet.
I’m using web+backend Kotlin multiplatform and it’s quite a lot of hacks and waiting 😅

[Marc Knaup]

It’s not a full rebuild but it isn’t fast either

[Not Me]

@Marc Knaup that’s sad 😞. I was looking for a more streamlined environment, hoping that it’s just my lack of gradle experience holding me back. Meanwhile I managed to find one thing - development builds of the frontend which helps at least a bit with the development. Thanks anyway.

[Oliver.O]

Am I right to assume that you did already stumble across
• Gradle --continuous builds,
• Ktor hot-reloading (via watchPaths) for the backend,
• webpack-dev-server hot-reloading for the frontend?

[Marc Knaup]

In my case:

Continuous builds are very broken for me with 1.4.30. Like 80% of builds fail randomly. And building those is what takes longest.

I don’t need nor am able to use ktor hot reload in the back-end.

Haven’t used webpack hot reloading yet. I don’t think that’ll do much since most time is spent on recompiling Kotlin code. Just adds even more complexity.