EPIC: Change React Framework

[entrotech]

Overview

Create React App is the framework used originally to create the TDM project. It is now deprecated and no longer supported, so the recommended action is to switch to a more current, maintained framework. The current most popular frameworks for React are Next.js and Vite, so those are the best candidates. This is a BIG project - particularly if we choose Next.js

Action Items

• Evaluate Next.js and Vite as possible replacements.
• This will probably involve creating a new repo from scratch, and migrating React components piecemeal into the new repo.
• Both Next.js and Vite highly recommend using Tailwind for CSS styling, which will involve a major re-work of our style implementation. This is a big project as well, but may allow us to better implement a design system.
• I haven't fully investigated Next.js yet, but it's server-side implementation MIGHT allow us to integrate Okta authentication, since it acts somewhat like a conventional web site.
• Next.js might also allow us to move all of our web api server implementation into the server-side part of the React Application ???

Resources/Instructions

https://nextjs.org/
https://vitejs.dev/

[Parisajf]

John said we are still working on the first check mark.