What is the status on using multiplatform to publish npm modules? I read <https://kotlinlang.org/doc...

# multiplatform

[Eivind Nilsbakken]

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.

[Sean Keane]

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

[Eivind Nilsbakken]

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.

[Sean Keane]

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

[Eivind Nilsbakken]

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

[Sean Keane]

Sorted!

[galex]

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?

[Eivind Nilsbakken]

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.

[Eivind Nilsbakken]

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

[Sean Keane]

Yep, it didnt exist last month