Kweb: The Easier Way to Website

Create beautiful, efficient, and powerful websites in Kotlin, quickly.

This documentation is a work-in-progress, feedback is very welcome. Please submit an issue, or fork, improve, and create a pull request to contribute directly.

And please join us to discuss all-things Kweb in our Gitter channel, where we’ll be happy to help if you have questions.

• Introduction
  • Motivation
  • How does it work?
  • Features
  • Relevant Links
• Getting Started
  • What you’ll need
  • Adding Kweb to your project
  • Hello world
  • Hello world²
• DOM Basics
  • Modifying the DOM
  • Supported HTML tags
  • Extending Kweb to support new HTML tags
  • Reading the DOM
  • Next steps
• Event Handling
  • Listening for events
  • Immediate events
  • Combination event handlers
• State Management
  • Building Blocks
  • KVars and the DOM
  • Rendering state to a DOM fragment
  • KVars and Persistent Storage
  • Reversible mappings
• URL Routing
  • A simple example
  • Modifying the URL
• Aesthetics
  • Getting started
  • Other UI Frameworks
• 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?
  • I have a question not answered here