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Something is happening in server-rendered web development. React shipped Server Components. HTMX made “hypermedia” cool again. Phoenix LiveView proved a server can push interactive UI updates without a client framework in sight. Every ecosystem seems to be rediscovering the server as a place to render UI, except one: the JVM. What if Compose, the UI toolkit already spanning Android, Desktop, and iOS, took a shot at server-rendering HTML too?
The vision is simple: give backend developers a way to build server-rendered UI as type-safe, reusable Compose components (real Kotlin, with autocomplete, refactoring, and compiler checks) instead of string-based templates. No separate templating language, no separate UI codebase to maintain alongside the backend. This blog serves to explore some ideas how to achieve this vision and represents an exploration instead of an official commitment.
