ditch jQuery for UI+animation libs

[DreadKnight]

We should totally ditch jQuery and replace it with an UI library plus an animation one, some options:

• https://vuejs.org
• https://vuetifyjs.com
• https://github.com/vuejs/ui
• https://nuxtjs.org
• https://greensock.com
• https://github.com/jeremyckahn/shifty - simple one for tweens

Edit: Going with Vue/Tres frameworks.

[DreadKnight]

Or maybe keeping things native, using https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Animations_API/Using_the_Web_Animations_API

[andretchen0]

There's a lot of jQuery $.extend calls used to copy properties from one JS object to another. If it's simple values that are being copied, those can be replaced with native Object.assign. Otherwise, a relatively simple custom function could be used for deep copies.

Is that worth doing as an intermediate step in order to move towards this goal?

[DreadKnight]

There's a lot of jQuery $.extend calls used to copy properties from one JS object to another. If it's simple values that are being copied, those can be replaced with native Object.assign. Otherwise, a relatively simple custom function could be used for deep copies.

Is that worth doing as an intermediate step in order to move towards this goal?

Yeah, I guess so; if we decouple from the stuff without running into issues that's still progress.

[DreadKnight]

We'll be going the Vue/Tres route.