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Move away from jquery and materilize.css #60

Open butlerx opened 7 years ago

butlerx commented 7 years ago

Jquery can slow down the pages load.

replace matericalizecss with this will remove its need for it https://github.com/material-components/material-components-web

VoyTechnology commented 7 years ago

What are our choices as jQuery alternatives? Going with some full on framework would not be ideal either, but DOM manipulation is a must.

butlerx commented 7 years ago

pure js

butlerx commented 7 years ago

slight aside material-components is not a drop in replacement for materializecss

SeanHealy33 commented 7 years ago

How big of an issue is this?

Seems like premature optimisation IMO

butlerx commented 7 years ago

tbh thats not much left to optimize aside the on page javascript

SeanHealy33 commented 7 years ago

I do like the idea of using a smaller JS lib for styling since there's tonnes of unused weight in that.

butlerx commented 7 years ago

since we mainly use the card interface and the jquery on the front end is mostly for the countdown i dont see a reason not to