Hi Colleagues!

Are there any plans about refactoring / modernisation of wicket's front-end
code?

What comes to my mind:

   - Start using TypeScript for a new code, so we can have type safety on
   the front end side as well. TypeScript is also released under apache
   license, so I think there should be no licensing issue with this.
   Potentially, as a crazy idea Kotlin could also work, but I think TypeScript
   suits better and requires less effort and learning;
   - Potentially get rid of jQuery, it's not that useful in 2019 (wicket
   has recently dropped legacy IE support);
   - Potentially introduce some modern lightweight front-end framework such
   as ReactJS;

Sorry if it was already discussed, I searched on issues.apache.org/jira and
didn't find anything relevant. Just wanted to discuss if something like
this is possible for distant future release. Potentially I can devote a few
hours a week to this.

Have a nice day,
Andrew

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