Don't depend on jQuery

[hwclass]

Hi the creators of Flightjs,

This is just a recommendation. Do you have any idea to avoid the dependency over jQuery and make a build of Flightjs without it?

Thanks.

[tgvashworth]

Hi @hwclass — currently, Flight has a hard dependency on jQuery. A jQuery-less version has been built before, but we haven't got it to a finished state yet. I'll try to convince @danwrong to put up a pull request for it.

[giuseppeg]

@PhUU @danwrong if you make it public (push to a dev branch) we could fork/help.

[kbingman]

@PhUU @danwrong yeah, I would be interested in looking at that very much and helping out.

[hwclass]

@PhUU @danwrong great, good news. The base strcuture of flight encourages developers to develop apps with seperation of concers, so to remove the dependency over jQuery would be a good work to do for the future of the framework. I would also be interested in developing something else for that work. Thanks..

[margaritis]

👍

[panesofglass]

👍

[tgvashworth]

WIP is on the feature/remove-jquery-320 branch.

[tunderdomb]

+1
I'd really love to see a lightweight version without the dependency too.

Also, out of curiosity, why did you decide to make it a requirement in the first place? I mean I can see this framework stand on its own without it just fine. Thanks!

[tgvashworth]

So this is actually kinda done. v2 isn't ready to use yet, but as of recently it doesn't use jQuery! Woo!

This issue on the flight-toolbox will track adding jQuery back if you want it, via a dom plugin replacement of some kind. The specifics of that are yet to be worked out.