Decoupling from Underscore.js

[leekelleher]

Taking lead from the Some decoupling from underscorejs #7731 ticket on the Umbraco CMS repo. I'd like Contentment to follow the same approach.

Also, relevant reading... You don't (may not) need Lodash/Underscore.

Using GitHub's search, these are the code files containing // TODO: Replace Underscore.js dependency. that I've littered throughout my codebase. https://github.com/leekelleher/umbraco-contentment/search?q=TODO+Underscore+dependency&unscoped_q=TODO+Underscore+dependency&type=Code

If anyone would like to help with this ticket, please don't interpret it as a whole task - any small incremental amends are warmly welcome.

[greystate]

Would the idea be the same as has been started for Umbraco (i.e., to replace Underscore with e.g. a Utilities object/class?)

[leekelleher]

Yes. I'm not sure which Umbraco version the Utilities helper is introduced in. (I assume 8.7.0, I'll check tomorrow). Either way, I'm happy to bump up the min version.

[leekelleher]

@greystate Confirmed that Utilities will be part of Umbraco 8.7.0. (ref: umbraco/Umbraco-CMS#7738)

Currently, Contentment is built against v8.6.1. I'm happy to bump this up to v8.7.0 once it is released, which would be for whatever the next Contentment version would be, either v1.1.x or v1.2.x.

I guess in the meantime, it's checking if there are any Underscore helpers used that could be replaced with native functions?

[leekelleher]

Closing this ticket. It'll be covered (and any further discussion) on PR #64.