aurora VS kobweb

+1 I really hope that they add official desktop controls. Just wanted to mention this library https://github.com/kirill-grouchnikov/aurora It has some pretty good looking desktop controls, in the meantime.

If you don't mind me asking: by "missing app framework" for Compose Desktop, do you mean a framework for WIMP components? I know that there is the Aurora project which brings these components to Compose Desktop (haven't tried it myself, though)

I haven't tried it yet but for GUI options there's Aurora

there's a library for that

Or you could use something like that: https://github.com/kirill-grouchnikov/aurora

Check out https://github.com/kirill-grouchnikov/aurora for some ideas on how to do this (custom components, etc...).

Not specifically a Windows theme per se, but you should take a look at Aurora.

Done, added "Other" and "None of the above" options. Thanks for the feedback! Btw, were you talking about this library: https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb?

Aaaaand sourcemap config done: https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb/commit/84e17b710d92332efdb37abb887e546a7f03c73d

(For people who don't know Kobweb, you can read more at https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb, but until I update it, please replace "Compose for Web" to "Compose HTML" in your head, thanks!)

I'm actively working on https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb, which builds on top of Compose for Web and adds some extra support to make it a little easier for Android developers to get into. (You will ultimately need to learn html / css but I believe Kobweb makes that a little easier to start getting used to it).

https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb is Compose for Web using DOM rendering instead of Canvas with a Jamstack like approach. Worth to try and if it later upgrade from Kotlin/JS to Kotlin/Wasm, it could really become something big …

I'm working on https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb which is not mature, but you might want to check it out anyway?

This is indeed a very important point, and I care deeply about that.

For Compose for Web, there has been I think a lot of debate to decide if the Web rendering should be Canvas or DOM based. At least for now, it seems the official support is focusing on Canvas rendering for pixel-perfect rendering, and it already works with Koltin/Wasm, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34779746. This choice is probably driven by Kotlin current mobile app main use case.

But via community-driven project like https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb or https://github.com/mpetuska/kmdc, Compose for Web can also be a good Web citizen and perform DOM based rendering.

I'm working on an opinionated framework on top of their framework called Kobweb, but depending on your goals it may be sightly too early to use it.

This may not help but I have a working ktor server in my project. Here's my Gradle config: https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb/blob/main/backend/server/build.gradle.kts