How to use the Kotlinx.html in Spring in place of the normal html template engine for JSP or Thymeleaf?

Question

The flaw of the traditional html template engine is the absence of type-safe and compile-time checking. Some gurus suggested that Kotlinx.html might greatly compensate the flaw of traditional html template engine.

So I plan to make use of Spring in Java without the html template engine, say without SpringResourceTemplateResolver nor SpringTemplateEngine, instead inject the kotlin code with kotlinx.html. But currently I've go clue at all how to proceed

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 02 '19 at 22:38

Right now I'm just returning a string with the kotlin html dsl as the return statement and the @ResponseBody annotation on the controller method.

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/")
class MyController constructor(){

  @GetMapping
  @ResponseBody
  fun index(): String {

    return myKotlinHtmlView()
  }
}

where myKotlinHtmlView() is the function where the template is

How to use the Kotlinx.html in Spring in place of the normal html template engine for JSP or Thymeleaf?

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