MVP / Prototype TODOs

[bitspittle]

Misc

• Figure out how to use markdown task lists
• Finalize the name
• Add a README with basic instructions

Web Compose investigation

• Create a project where a multiplatform JS library with composables is consumed by a JS application
• Figure out how to get hot reload to work automatically. (Answer: ./gradlew jsRun --continuous, plus lots of interesting options in https://kotlinlang.org/docs/js-ir-compiler.html)
• Do we lean into the CSS approach as embraced by Web Compose, or try to mimic Jetpack Compose? Need to experiment with what it means to make a regular app and a website with kobweb.
• Figure out how to discover all classes that subclass another class (e.g. HomePage which inherits from Page). This may need to be magically done by kobweb, maybe with KotlinPoet?
• Will compile times be a major issue? (They're not great, but they're not the end of the world. ~1-2 seconds)

Kobweb (Binary)

• Set up arg parser
• Figure out how to get hot reload to work automatically.
• Add support for "kobweb create --site --use-markdown" when run inside an empty folder
• Figure out how to strip out classes from the final binary, to reduce the final html JS
• Add support for "kobweb run --dev" when run inside a kobweb project
• Add support for "kobweb build" which should generate a static site -- Note: this can be done by running chrome in headless, e.g. google-chrome --headless --disable-gpu --dump-dom http://localhost:8080/

Kobweb (Core)

• Create App and Page classes, use them in a project
• Use @page annotation instead of Page base class?
• Handle routing using navigation + show in URL bar (Refresh should keep you on the active page)
• Get markdown plugin working
• API routes with shared types (e.g. "api/hello" defined in jvmMain returns a HelloMsg defined in commonMain and read by a page defined in jsMain)
• Audit all markdown nodes (e.g. code blocks)
• PageContext via provider, available in pages, includes "params: Map<String, String>" for now, and a home for markdown data if relevant
• Allow markdown to reference code ${SomeComponent()}

Kobweb Silk

• Figure out UI theming
• Figure out dynamic color mode
• Add Flex component
• Add Link component
• Can we avoid creating a Link class in kobweb.silk if we use css variables instead?
• Shapes
• Add icon support (React Icons?)
• Add a canvas widget
• Save color mode across site runs #53
• Breakpoints

Site

• Create an explicit site runner for now (will eventually be handled by kobweb)
• Create a hello world app that autoloads when user changes code
• Create a hello world app with two pages that can link to each other ("/" and "/about")
• Move site runner logic into kobweb
• Create a sample app

[bitspittle]

I feel like there should be more fanfare, but, um, looks like 0.6.5 is going to be an MVP release. Hooray.

More bugs to fix of course, we've still got a climb to 1.0, but we'll use normal github issue tracking from now on.