--- title: Getting Started with Web Assembly and Kotlin Multiplatform description: A beginner-friendly guide to setting up a Kotlin Multiplatform project that compiles to WebAssembly and runs in the browser. Covers project creation in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/getting-started-with-web-assembly-and-kotlin-multiplatform-uz7lhuppb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Getting Started with Web Assembly and Kotlin Multiplatform | daily.dev og:description: A beginner-friendly guide to setting up a Kotlin Multiplatform project that compiles to WebAssembly and runs in the browser. Covers project creation in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/getting-started-with-web-assembly-and-kotlin-multiplatform-uz7lhuppb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UZ7lhUpPb.png og:image:alt: Getting Started with Web Assembly and Kotlin Multiplatform og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Getting Started with Web Assembly and Kotlin Multiplatform **[Touchlab](https://daily.dev/sources/touchlab)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A beginner-friendly guide to setting up a Kotlin Multiplatform project that compiles to WebAssembly and runs in the browser. Covers project creation in IntelliJ IDEA, configuring the `build.gradle.kts` file with the `wasmJs` target, creating the HTML entry point, and running the dev server with Gradle. Also explains how the Kotlin compiler generates JavaScript glue code to handle the complex WebAssembly module instantiation process, including providing the thousands of required imports automatically. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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