React-beautiful-dnd: Does this really need to be a react-only library?

Created on 3 Apr 2019 · 4Comments · Source: atlassian/react-beautiful-dnd

This is by far the best and most polished drag/sortable library out there - but I question why it's a React only thing. Would it not be feasible to have this as a standard web component that can be used regardless of your framework of choice? That way the whole js community can benefit from the library.

It seems to me the general principles of dragging/sorting elements applies whether your using React, Vue, Angular, etc - the only specific thing is the actual state of the sorted list, which I would imagine is the most minimal part of the library anyway?

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garygreen

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Hi! I would also like to see this library built with vanilla JS so people using other frameworks could use it. This is the most feature rich library I have found and it's a bit sad that developers using other frameworks can't use it. One feature that I haven't personally seen in other libraries, is integrating it with virtual scrollers. I kindly ask you to move away from being just a React library.

ispal on 2 Jan 2020

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Thanks for your kind words @garygreen. Knowing what I know now, I think it could be possible to do as you suggest. I don't see it being on the cards for a while as we are still trying to deliver some core features, but I am more open to this for sure

alexreardon on 4 Apr 2019

We are closing this issue due to inactivity. If you would like to continue the conversation feel free to reply to this issue and we can reopen it if needed.

alexreardon on 22 Jul 2019

ispal on 2 Jan 2020

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any news on reconsidering this?