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Upgrade to modern JS like es6 or es7 #5596
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I don't even know what the right name is any more, but basically modernize our codebase to enable folks who never learned ES5 to contribute :)
My main question now is: is such an upgrade so mechanical that it's zero-risk and we can just do i in a patch or minor? Or are we sufficiently worried that we should do it in the 2.0 cycle just in case it shakes something loose?
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nicolaskruchten commentedon Apr 20, 2021
We could even just start using a transpiler... we don't need to change much of our code so long as we accept the new idioms :)
alexcjohnson commentedon Apr 21, 2021
The only concern I have about doing this in a minor is if it will break the build of someone downstream who imports plotly.js from source. If we're worried about that it could be worthwhile doing a minimal version of this in v2.0 including a transpiler and at least one change somewhere in the core that depends on transpiling.
nicolaskruchten commentedon Apr 21, 2021
That's a thought!
archmoj commentedon Oct 3, 2024
Addressed by #6909.