Migration to 6.x

SlickGrid is now jQuery free 🌊

In our previous v5.0 release (see Migration to v5.0), we dropped jQueryUI and now in v6.0 we are going even further and are now dropping jQuery entirely. You can still use jQuery but it's no longer a dependency. There are multiple benefits in dropping jQuery and go the vanilla route, the biggest advantages are:

1. it should provide better performance (browser native)
2. build size should be smaller (see table below)

Major Changes - Quick Summary

• we dropped jQuery requirement
  • it also required us to rewrite the multiple-select (jQuery based lib) into a brand new multiple-select-vanilla lib which is now native and has zero dependency

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NOTE: if you come from an earlier version other than 5.x, please make sure to follow each migration in their respected order

Changes

Replaced multiple-select with multiple-select-vanilla

This change was required because the previous library was a jQuery based lib, so I rewrote the lib as a new native lib to drop jQuery. However with this change, there were a couple of options that were dropped and/or modified.

// you can load `MultipleSelectOption` from either the new Multiple-Select-Vanilla lib or from Aurelia-Slickgrid (which is a re-export)
  import { MultipleSelectOption } from 'aurelia-slickgrid';       // still works, but is a re-export of the import shown below
+ import { MultipleSelectOption } from 'multiple-select-vanilla'; // preferred

filterOptions: { 
-  autoDropWidth: true, // removed and no longer required
} as MultipleSelectOption

The new lib also offers a bunch of new options as well, you can see the full interface at MultipleSelectOption

Slickgrid-Universal

If you use any of the Slickgrid-Universal extra dependencies then make sure to upgrade them to the new major 3.0.0 version so that they work with Aurelia-Slickgrid 6.0.0

  "dependencies": {
-   "@slickgrid-universal/excel-export": "^2.6.4",
+   "@slickgrid-universal/excel-export": "^3.0.0",
-   "aurelia-slickgrid": "^5.6.4",
+   "aurelia-slickgrid": "^6.0.0",
}

Editor/Filter params should be using editorOptions/filterOptions

For better TypeScript support, we now recommend to use either editorOptions or filterOptions depending if it's an Editor or a Filter.

this.columnDefinitions = [{
  id: 'cost', name: 'Cost', field: 'cost',
  editor: {
    model: Editors.slider,
-    params: { hideSliderNumber: false }
+    editorOptions: { hideSliderNumber: false } as SliderOption
  },
  filter: {
    model: Filters.slider,
-    params: { hideSliderNumber: false }
+    filterOptions: { hideSliderNumber: false } as SliderOption
  },

Final Note

and that's about it, the migration is relatively simple as you can see :)

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File Size Comparisons

The comparison below was made by looking at the folder properties from "size on disk" on Windows, and it looks like we're averaging 4-5% smaller size in our new release by removing jQuery.

Slickgrid-Universal

File	before	after	diff	% diff
SF Bundle Zip File	624Kb (638,976)	596Kb (610,304)	-28Kb	4.48% smaller
GitHub Vite Demo Website	4.99Mb (5,234,688)	4.72Mb (4,956,160)	-0.27Mb (or -272Kb)	4.07% smaller

Angular-Slickgrid results (should be similar results for Aurelia-Slickgrid)

File	before	after	diff	% diff
GitHub Demo Website	9.24Mb (9,695,232)	8.76Mb (9,187,328)	-0.48Mb	5.24% smaller
JS Bundle	8.14Mb / 1.39Mb (gzip)	7.65Mb / 1.32Mb (gzip)	-0.49Mb / -0.07Mb	9.21% / 5.03%