Building modern web apps with Kotlin and WebAssembly

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Shows how Kotlin compiled to WebAssembly can be used to build high-performance web apps and serverless functions, demonstrating interaction with browser APIs and existing JavaScript libraries. Compares UI strategies—direct DOM manipulation versus Compose Multiplatform—while explaining their trade-offs and performance implications, with links to slides and a Kotlin-Wasm browser template repository.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Kotlin Wasm
2. 2:52Direct DOM manipulation
3. 7:07Building with custom DSLs
4. 10:06Debugging Kotlin Wasm
5. 15:05Binary size analysis
6. 20:01Compose multiplatform
7. 25:31Compose HTML framework
8. 27:39Summary and conclusion

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