varabyte/kobweb

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2238 stars · 95 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Kobweb is an opinionated Kotlin full-stack web framework built on Compose HTML, inspired by Next.js and Chakra UI. It provides page routing, live reloading, a Silk UI component library, server API routes, markdown support, and SEO-friendly static exports.

Use cases

• build a full-stack web app in Kotlin
• create a static site with SEO-friendly exports using Compose HTML
• add server API endpoints with @Api annotations in Kotlin
• build a website with light/dark mode and a component library
• migrate from Next.js-style routing to a Kotlin-based framework
• write reactive UIs with Compose for the web
• set up a Kotlin web project with live reloading

When to choose

• you know Kotlin or Compose and want to build websites or web apps with it
• you want a Next.js-like developer experience in the Kotlin ecosystem
• you need both frontend pages and backend API routes in one codebase
• you want built-in routing, theming, and live reloading out of the box

When to avoid

• your team primarily works in JavaScript or TypeScript
• you need a battle-tested 1.0 framework for a large production system (Kobweb is pre-1.0)
• you want to avoid opinionated framework conventions
• you need a framework with a very large plugin ecosystem

Facets

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web-framework ssr static-site-generator routing ui-components templating api-framework cli web-development frontend backend developer-tools jvm cross-platform cli compose-html kotlin-multiplatform nextjs-inspired chakra-ui-inspired silk-ui live-reloading full-stack kobweb-cli web-server

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