Thoughts on dropping the dependency on clipboard.js?

[pradyunsg]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/clipboard-js -- clipboard.js is a deprecated package, and all the relevant APIs are available as vanilla JS in modern browsers.

Describe the solution you'd like

See https://tomspencer.dev/blog/2018/09/14/adding-click-to-copy-buttons-to-a-hugo-powered-blog/#final-code, which describes the entirety of what JS is needed to cleanly implement the same functionality on modern browsers.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Status quo? IDK any good alternatives to be honest.

Additional context

Nothing. I just realized that all Sphinx extensions that I generally recommend, are all now projects under the executablebooks umbrella. :)

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[choldgraf]

I'm totally fine with it as long as the behavior stays the same. I used clipboard.js originally just because I'm not a JS developer and that was the fastest path towards getting a working functionality :-)

[nijel]

https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-copybutton/pull/206 should address this.