I am trying to develop a Nodejs application using Kotlin 1.3.11 using the IntelliJ IDEA CE development environment. Unfortunately I haven't made any progress towards a running application. To ensure everything is setup correctly I want to print out a simple "hello world".
I searched for articles or tutorials about the topic but I didn't find much about bringing those three together (Kotlin, IntelliJ, Nodejs). The most specific ones which I found are: a medium post and another post.
As far as I (believe to) know, there are three major steps:
- calling initializing the node app via npm and using npm to install the node dependencies like kotlin and expressjs
- creating a build.gradle to define other dependencies and tasks
- creating an IntelliJ IDEA project
I tried to perform the steps in different orders but I never came to a running application. Also I searched in IntelliJ's documentation but the Nodejs integration isn't a feature of the free community edition. There isn't a description how to make Kotlin and Nodejs work together too.
Has anyone here successfully tried to do that (or failed and knows why it is not going to work)? Do I have to use another IDE or to write my own build tools/toolchain?
Sincerely J.