After tweeting my blog posts on Twitter, I got a reply from the cofounder of Gluon no less (Eugene Ryzhikov) who suggested I take a look at the javafx-gradle-plugin. I’m glad I did – it has cleaned up my gradle file nicely so that it looks less abnormal.

I think I did it right.

Old Gradle Dependencies

dependencies {
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8"
    compile name: "javafx.fxml"       // WEIRD
    compile name: "javafx.controls"   // WEIRD
    compile name: "javafx.base"       // WEIRD
    compile name: "javafx.graphics"   // WEIRD
    compile "com.google.guava:guava:27.1-jre"

    testCompile "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-reflect:$KOTLIN_VERSION"
    testCompile "org.assertj:assertj-core:3.11.1"
    testCompile "org.testfx:testfx-core:4.0.15-alpha"
    testCompile "org.testfx:testfx-junit:4.0.15-alpha"
}

New Gradle Dependencies

javafx {
    modules = [ 'javafx.controls', 'javafx.fxml' ]
}

dependencies {
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8"
    compile "com.google.guava:guava:27.1-jre"
    // WEIRDNESS GONE
    testCompile "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-reflect:$KOTLIN_VERSION"
    testCompile "org.assertj:assertj-core:3.11.1"
    testCompile "org.testfx:testfx-core:4.0.15-alpha"
    testCompile "org.testfx:testfx-junit:4.0.15-alpha"
}

The full gradle file is here.