I think it’s a fabulous idea. Two thumbs up.

> On 14 Feb 2019, at 9:07 pm, Bob Harner <bobhar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I agree that Tapestry shouldn't be so tightly coupled to a specific CSS
> framework.
> 
> For context and some alternative ideas, see this prior discussion of the
> same topic:
> 
> https://tapestry.markmail.org/search/?q=What+happens+when+Boootstrap+4+is+released%3F
> 
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 4:52 AM Ben Weidig <b...@netzgut.net wrote:
> 
>> Hi Jens,
>> 
>> I like the idea of decoupling the core and Bootstrap to make it easier to
>> use other versions.
>> 
>> Maybe the components should be updated to BS4 for T5.5, with a legacy
>> fallback or a component swap (can't remember the service doing it, we have
>> our own implementation, it's doing an advice on
>> ComponentClassResolver#resolveComponentTypeToClassName or
>> ComponentInstantiatorSource#getInstantiator).
>> 
>> For 5.4 we've developed an internal solution for using different BS
>> versions, here are some specifics.
>> 
>> We have multi-tenant-apps with different BS versions (so far up to 3), so
>> we needed a flexible solution that supports the internal BS and other
>> versions dynamically.
>> 
>> To make it even more flexible we've added SASS-support and compile
>> Bootstrap from the source files, with the possibility to add files
>> beforehand to the compilation step with custom variables etc.
>> 
>> The layout component has an annotation that triggers
>> a ComponentClassTransformWorker2 attaching a JavaScriptStack containing the
>> BS version decided by a contributable strategy pipeline.
>> 
>> JavaScript modules were the biggest problems, we started with replacing the
>> internal modules, but ended up adding additional modules instead. This
>> worked fine after getting all the dependencies right, but every BS version
>> might break it again, so we're now using the bundled version of BS JS.
>> 
>> We think this could all be cleaned up nicely if the internal BS wouldn't be
>> as integrated as it is right now.
>> 
>> Eventually we will release it as open-source, but having an integration
>> into Tapestry (as a new tapestry-*) would be even nicer :-)
>> 
>> Best regards
>> Ben
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:14 AM Jens Breitenstein <mailingl...@j-b-s.de>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Tapestry guys!
>>> 
>>> I want to hear/read your opinion about getting rid of the Bootstrap
>>> Library from T5 core.
>>> I would like to move all BS related code (css/js) to a seperate module
>>> like "tapestry-bootstrap3" and decouple the hardcoded BS from T5.
>>> Furthermore I would like to see a second module "tapestry-bootstrap4"
>>> which uses BS4.
>>> 
>>> From the sources I see direct dependencies are less than expected. Some
>>> tml's use it (I just ignore the internal T5 pages for now):
>>> 
>>>     AjaxFormLoop.tml
>>>         class="btn btn-default btn-sm"
>>>         <t:glyphicon name="plus-sign"/>
>>> 
>>>     BeanEditForm.tml
>>>         class="btn-toolbar"
>>>         class="btn-group"
>>>         class="btn btn-primary"
>>> 
>>>     DevTool.tml
>>>         <t:glyphicon name="cog"/>
>>>         class="dropdown-menu"
>>>         class="dropdown-header"
>>> 
>>>     ExceptionDisplay.tml
>>>         class="well"
>>>         class="pull-right"
>>>         class="checkbox"        // ?
>>> 
>>>     Palette.tml
>>>         class="btn-group-vertical"
>>> 
>>> and some JAVA references like:
>>> 
>>>     JavaScriptModule.java
>>>         configuration.add("bootstrap/ ...")
>>> 
>>>         bundledModules=...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Do you think it's worths looking into it, digging deeper?
>>> Any pitfalls I should consider?
>>> Anyone interested to discuss it?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jens
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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