Full-stack Kotlin app with Maven?

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Hi.

I’m trying to create a full-stack project (as in, Kotlin/JVM in the backend and Kotlin/JS in the frontend), using IntelliJ IDEA and Maven.

But I haven’t found out any documentation or tutorials regarding doing this using Maven. All documentation and example projects available use Gradle.

So far, I know that using the kotlin-maven-plugin, and including the dependencies kotlin-sdlib and kotlin-sdlib-js work for each Kotlin backend singularly… but how can I do it for both JVM and JS backends?

Is it even possible to create a full-stack project with a single Maven module? Or should I rely on multiple Maven modules?

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If you want to share code between the backend and frontend you have to use gradle. So far it’s the only supported build tool for multi-platform projects.

As of Kotlin 1.2, multiplatform projects have to be built with Gradle; other build systems are not supported.

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/multiplatform.html

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That is not strictly true. You need to use Gradle if you want to have a module with code that is compiled to both JavaScript and Java bytecode. Otherwise you can use Maven, you simply need to put your Kotlin-JS code and your Kotlin-JVM code in separate modules.

As an example this is a project I made quite a while ago (before there even was a possibility of multiplatform Gradle modules): JavaScriptLogger.

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That was exactly what I was looking for, thank you very much!