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What is the status on using multiplatform to publish npm modules? I read <https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/building-mpp-with-gradle.html#publishing-a-multiplatform-library>, but that didn't make me any wiser. I've read <https://medium.com/swlh/kotlin-to-jar-and-npm-87a5b0ca2dff>, which has a solution, but that feels like a bit of a hack. Also, publishing maven artifacts with Javadoc seems to have become easier since that was written.

I have the same issue. Any feedback or samples would be a massive help

It sort of works out of the box in `1.3.61`, except that you have to unzip the jar and publish to a npm registry manually. I also haven't found a better way to override the namespace the package is imported into, so you still have to do something like the `package.json` + `index.js` "hack" described in that article to "unwrap" your package (unless you're fine with your consumers having to do that), but at least you don't have to explicitly require `kotlin` anymore, since the generated module does that for you.

This is exactly the type of thing I wanted to hear. I've got as far as generating a jar. That's where my confusion started. But thank you for clearing it up for me. I'll give it a go today and hopefully get a "hello world" string shared on all three platforms

Good luck! Hopefully things will get even better in 1.4, when type definitions are supposed to be generated as well.

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Isn’t it better to run `jsBrowserWebpack` , copy the js file into a folder, create a package.json then zip them together to have an npm module?

I'm not sure if that was an option when we were doing this, but I moved onto webpack a while back, and it works like a charm.

I haven't merged it into my master branch yet though.