Discussion: Migration of SlickGrid to TypeScript

[Danielku15]

I am following up here the discussion of #572, I think it is worth having an own dedicated issue for that 😉 @6pac @ghiscoding

It would be worth a consideration to migration SlickGrid to a typescript codebase and try to modernize the codebase by eliminating some dependencies of which some are maybe even unmaintained.

Some benefits on that:

• A more modern tech-stack attracts more developers to contribute. Getting new devs bootstrapped and accomodated with the SlickGrid development environment is eaiser this way.
• Providing libraries for other projects becomes easier (NPM, TypeScript definitions,..)
• Dependency management gets more visible
• Removing jQuery makes it more attractive for new frameworks like Angular, React etc. which usually avoid jQuery.
• Test infrastructure, documentation etc. is easier to maintain.
• Code quality overall can be improved (TSDoc, TypeSafety, OOP development style, module system compatibility,..)

If there is a strategy in this regards, I could try to prepare a basic infrastructure based on my own project which provides bundling, CI/CD scripts, etc. Or you just peek into my structure as a first idea:

It might have a bit more than SlickGrid will need. But especially setting up rollup, typescript, karma, incremental compilation etc. took me a bit, but now it's really smooth (to me at least 😁 ).

• https://github.com/CoderLine/alphaTab/
• https://alphatab.net/docs/contributing

[ghiscoding]

@6pac
Can you open the GitHub "Discussion" tab in your project, I think it would be better use for this

[ghiscoding]

@Danielku15 the Discussion tab is now open, can you move your text in a new Discussion.. oh wait there's a button "Convert to discussion", please do that

[Danielku15]

@ghiscoding Only Repository Maintainers can do that 😉 Feel free to move it.