Support for client-side frameworks

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Moved from GCCode: https://gccode.ssc-spc.gc.ca/sgdc-cdts/sgdc-cdts/issues/14

Greg Baker created the issue

Lately it seems that our clients are asking for more ambitious user interfaces than what we have been offering. Some of the stuff they want is incredibly difficult to write from scratch using vanilla JS/ECMA.

I've experimented with getting CDTS working with Angular, but the process to get things like language toggling working is not straight forward.

Do you have any plans to natively support frameworks such as Angular, React, or Vue.js in the future? Right now, we are mandated to use CDTS; this puts us between a rock and a hard place with respect to some of the advanced rich UIs that our clients are asking for.

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@shawnthompson commented:

@gregory.j.baker we have no plans on supporting any other JS library at this time. We are working on optimizing CDTS and making open source so in the future if you'd like to collaborate and help us support different libraries that would be awesome.

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Greg Baker commented:

I am interested in creating an Angular module, perhaps. Or maybe a module using one of the other frameworks I've mentioned.

We have some Angular experience on our team (a couple of developers), so maybe we can create a prototype as a starting point.