Migrate from manual dom manipulation to React to make future development & contributions easier

[Stvad]

more motivation?

38 sets up initial usage for sidebar managment

Strategy

• It seems to be ok to ask React to render multiple independent components on the page separtely - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31302803/is-it-ok-to-use-react-render-multiple-times-in-the-dom
  • So one can try re-writing smaller components and replacing their rendering with React
  • combining things into a single unified tree as the process continues
• I haven't done such a migration before, so it'd be valuable to spend more time looking for strategies for this use-case in general

Questions

• Is there a need for state-management (redux-style) ?

[fuddl]

i'd like to have react state management in /src/sidebar/components/flex/flex.tpl.js. The table should be rendered differently when there is not enough space