Sometimes it feels like I have been yak shaving for the last 20 years. Well, not entirely. But things like Rules Engines, SOA, App Servers and debugging Hibernate comes to mind. 😉
On the back end, things have gotten better over time. But on the front end it, feels a bit like it is history repeating. While it is impressive what you can do in React. React and all the accompanying tools is too complex for many normal web applications.
So when I discovered HTMX it really tickled my interest to see how I could combine this into an efficient development flow. Back to basics. Hypermedia and HTML. 🙂
And I think I have a pretty decent starting point in the Github repo linked below. 🙂
A full stack environment with Kotlin, KTor and HTMX. Everything loaded, compiled and packaged with Gradle. Compile in IDEA to see the changes full stack.
The following repo contains a running example (just do ./gradlew run to test it) and a semi-detailed Readme: https://github.com/anderssv/kotlin-htmx/blob/main/Readme.md
You can try the “application” here (initial load might be a little slow as it is on free fly.io which suspends inactive processes): https://kotlin-htmx.fly.dev/
This holds real promise, and I hope I get to work with this for real in production soon. 🙂
Thoughts? 🙂
After doing this I discovered that there is a similar example linked directly from the HTMX site. Nice one 🙂 https://github.com/Rattlyy/htmx-ktor/tree/master
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