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Rewrite in TypeScript
Please explain the problem/why you would want to see a change and any workarounds you might have in place.
I don't want to maintain a JavaScript application when TypeScript exists. I'm going to prioritise a change to using TypeScript instead of JavaScript alongside Electron.
This should be good for contributors as well.
On another note, if I'm going to maintain this application, I need a thorough understanding of how the old app works. This will allow me to have that familiarity.
Working on this currently. Will be part of the v0.8.0 release. This requires a pretty big rewrite:
- Add back the renderer to the web view.
I need to be more careful: perhaps leave the renderer JS file as JavaScript and change everything else?
I could rewrite much of the code as using the custom protocol and handling those signals.
This is going well so far: entire main thread code has been rewritten in TypeScript along with a few other tickets I was working on at the same time.
This dramatically reduces the amount of code and I think it makes it much easier to read and contribute to as well. It should be a good change provided I can convince people to update to v0.11.0.