Kweb - Pleasant web development, in Kotlin 🦆

A lightweight Kotlin web framework for backend developers.

• Introduction
  • Motivation
  • How does it work?
  • Features
  • Relevant Links
• Getting Started
  • What you’ll need
  • Adding Kweb to your project
    • Groovy DSL
    • Kotlin DSL
    • Groovy DSL
    • Kotlin DSL
  • Hello world
  • Hello world²
  • Template Repository
• DOM Basics
  • Creating DOM Elements and Fragments
  • Element Attributes
  • Adding children to an existing element
  • Reading from the DOM
  • Supported HTML tags
  • Further Reading
• Event Handling
  • Listening for events
  • Immediate events
  • Combination event handlers
• Observer Pattern & State
  • Overview
  • Building blocks
  • KVars and the DOM
  • Binding a KVar to an input element’s value
  • Rendering state to a DOM fragment
  • Extracting data class properties
  • Reversible mapping
• URL Routing
  • A simple example
  • Handing 404s
  • Modifying the URL
• Database
  • Overview
  • Shoebox and State
  • Future Development
  • Other Databases
  • Working Example
• CSS & Style
  • Getting started
  • Other UI Frameworks
  • Example and Demo
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • Won’t Kweb be slow relative to client-side web frameworks?
  • What’s the difference between Kweb and Vaadin?
  • Is there a larger working example?
  • How do I enable HTTPS?
  • Can I embed Kweb within an Android app?
  • What about templates?
  • Why risk my project on a framework I just heard of?
  • How is “Kweb” pronounced?
  • Can Kweb be embedded in an existing Ktor app?
  • I have a question not answered here