We love Kotlin, we love DSLs, and when we have to develop a web application, we naturally want to use Kotlinx.html. It proposes a nice DSL to generate HTML fragments on the server using Kotlin/JVM or the browser with Kotlin/JS.

Dot plots are usually recommended for small sets of data, as bar charts are preferred when we need to represent larger sets. However, an interactive chart allows you to manage both “uniqueness” and “volume” of your data set.

As a first entry in this blog, we are going to explain the foundations of the data2viz project, its motivations and our vision of its future.

For the vast majority of Kotlin/JS applications, you need to do remote calls. You can perform your calls from Kotlin/JS using the fetch API, but using a third party library simplifies the code. I describe in this post the pros and cons of two natural solutions.

Should you use Ktor-client and Axios for your Kotlin/JS calls?

Well, it depends if you care about the distribution size of your app.