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diff --git a/about.md b/about.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..01d9d6d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/about.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +--- +layout: page +title: About +permalink: /about/ +--- + +Object oriented Web UI framework for Kotlin/JS. + +KVision allows you to build user interface of modern web applications with the [Kotlin](https://kotlinlang.org) language. +It's designed to be object oriented in the "most classical" sense - it gives you a hierarchy of many different components, +which are used to build application UI. + +Unlike most of the popular web UI frameworks (AngularJS, React, Vue.js and others), +KVision is not declarative - it is not designed to mix HTML code (or pseudo code) with a typical +programming language like JavaScript. In KVision everything is just written in Kotlin, and your code can be reused not by creating any templates, +but by using well known OOP design patterns - composition and inheritance. + +This design is quite similar to many non-web UI programming libraries including Swing (Java), QT (C++) and WinForms (C#). + +## Features + +- 100% type safe and fully compiled dev environment. +- Type safe DSL builders. +- Based on [Bootstrap](https://getbootstrap.com/) styles, typography and components. +- Utilizes [Snabbdom](https://github.com/snabbdom/snabbdom) fast virtual DOM implementation. +- Integrates with libraries and components from [Font awesome](https://fontawesome.com/), [Bootstrap Select](https://github.com/silviomoreto/bootstrap-select) (with [AJAX](https://github.com/truckingsim/Ajax-Bootstrap-Select) extension), +[Awesome Bootstrap Checkbox](https://github.com/flatlogic/awesome-bootstrap-checkbox), [Trix editor](https://trix-editor.org/), [Bootstrap Datetime picker](https://github.com/AuspeXeu/bootstrap-datetimepicker), +[Bootstrap touchspin](https://github.com/istvan-ujjmeszaros/bootstrap-touchspin) and [Navigo](https://github.com/krasimir/navigo). +- Includes sophisticated layout containers, including CSS flexbox, CSS grid and Bootstrap responsive 12 columns grid. +- Includes convenient forms implementation, with support for many different input components and easy to use validation. +- Data binding support for [observable](https://github.com/rjaros/kotlin-observable-js) data model. +- Easy to use Drag & Drop support. +- Ready to explore [KVision examples](https://github.com/rjaros/kvision-examples) are available, +built with [Gradle](https://gradle.org/) and supporting Webpack's [Hot Module Replacement (HMR)](https://webpack.js.org/concepts/hot-module-replacement/) and +[Kotlin JavaScript DCE (dead code elimination)](https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/javascript-dce.html). +- [Karma](https://karma-runner.github.io/) testing framework support. +- IDE support (IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition). |