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Anyone is using Kotlin for apps to be run on Node.js in production? Is it stable already? Would you recommend it for newly started projects?

@viliusk did you try to?

yesterday I've played with this tutorial

looked simple and worked

AFAIK, ts2kt runs in node.js. So you can ask @bashor about his experience.

but I wonder what about large project?

maybe at least 3y development will be needed

That's bad tutorial. It shows how not to do in Kotlin

For example, this

external fun require(module:String):dynamic

is a dirty hack, while Kotlin compiler can insert

requre()

automatically

ah

For example, you can do this way:

@JsModule("express")
external fun express(): dynamic

Of course, you must declare this function outside

main

function

where would you recommend newbies (java, android dev) to start creating backend with kotlin on Node.js?

Another thing: there's ts2kt tool. You can try to use it to generate typed headers for this

express

module

http://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/javascript/working-with-javascript.html This is about browser environment, but it should not be very difficult to apply the same knowledge to write for node.js

What kind of newbies do you mean? Are they newbies in Kotlin or in JavaScript/node.js?

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I can't get my gradle run configuration to work properly. I get this error

Kotlin to JavaScript translator temporarily does not support multiple modules

However if I run

gradle build

from command line I have no problems. Could someone explain why I get this error?

Has anyone used Kotlin JS with GSK/gradle-kotlin-dsl?

Hey guys, I am working on a MERN project which is using google cloud to store images. In order to do that it requires gcloud permissions which can be acquired by

GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS

environment variable setup along with other secret keys. Now, this env variable wants a path to JSON file which I get from gcloud which contains some sensitive data. It was easy to work with this on my local machine as I did setup the env variables but when I push it on Heroku it won't work because of this env variable. So my web app is unable to create objects in gcloud. Can someone help me out with this problem?

Is trhere any way to get kotlinx-nodejs now that jcenter is dead

JCenter is causing issues for kotlinx-nodejs again, any chance of action on https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-nodejs/issues/16?

I am trying to import

NPM

module from Kotlin/JS project. I followed this guide. https://kotlinlang.org/docs/js-react.html#add-the-video-player-component In the same way, I am trying to import

recharts

from

NPM

, but in the

main.kt

file, I can’t import recharts and it’s submodules. Please somebody help me regarding this if you’d like to do it.

Hello guys, how can we pass command line args to the

main

fun of our program using the

nodeRun

gradle command? Using the

--args="…"

, like in jvm

run

, I receive an “Unknown command-line option ‘--args’” error

Hey everyone, just wanted to confirm, the current way to interact with the nodejs api, like the filesystem, is with the kotlinx-nodejs package, which is still experimental, correct?