Request: standalone example project / tutorial / documentation

[mattylase]

I know this may not be an actionable issue, but wanted to share all the same.

I've spent most of my day trying to get a project with zipline running, to no avail. In the scenarios where I could get the build running, serveDevelopmentZipline never actually seemed to sever anything, either through curl or integrated into projects.

• I tried adapting the code samples in the README.md, but couldn't really understand how to adapt them to the shape of a brand new KMP project/library
• Tried searching a lot of this - search results are almost all filled with youtube videos or slides from presentations on this topic
• Followed the only written tutorial I could find on the subject, and failed
• Assumed I made a typo, so just tried cloning & running their code directly, didn't work either
• Assume everything else is wrong, clone this entire repo so I can just run the samples
• Encounter an ExceptionInInitializationError pointing to libquickjs.dylib
• The link on TROUBLESHOOTING.md mentioning this issue is dead and didn't take me anywhere

I think this is a really promising project, but I wasn't able to get to "Hello, World" in a full day. While I'm certainly not a Zipline or KMP expert, I think it would be really beneficial to this project & dev community to create an example repo separate from the main zipline project with a clear set of end-to-end instructions, or even a known working sample app that wasn't reliant on this repo's project/gradle configuration

[yushaye]

I'm experiencing similar difficulties. I've also spent a lot of time trying to get Zipline running in a new KMP project, but unfortunately, I haven't been successful either.

Would it be possible to provide some guidance or additional resources to help us get started? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

[JakeWharton]

There are two external samples we manage in the Redwood repo which use Zipline:

• https://github.com/cashapp/redwood/tree/trunk/samples/emoji-search
• https://github.com/cashapp/redwood/tree/trunk/test-app

Of course, you have to contend with that repo which is also fairly large. Additionally, because we embed the compiled Zipline application in assets for automated testing the hot reload is broken (cashapp/redwood#1820).

I'm not aware of any other samples or anything.

[yushaye]

There are two external samples we manage in the Redwood repo which use Zipline:

• https://github.com/cashapp/redwood/tree/trunk/samples/emoji-search
• https://github.com/cashapp/redwood/tree/trunk/test-app

Of course, you have to contend with that repo which is also fairly large. Additionally, because we embed the compiled Zipline application in assets for automated testing the hot reload is broken (cashapp/redwood#1820).

I'm not aware of any other samples or anything.

Thank you for your response! You've cleared up my confusion. I want to implement a JavaScript-based plugin system leveraging a JavaScript engine, which can import JavaScript files to add extra functions. It seems that Zipline isn't entirely designed for this purpose.

[JakeWharton]

No, it is not. But you could use the underlying QuickJs type for that. It is the raw JS engine.