Possible refactoring of the code base

[FloChehab]

Hi @cracker0dks
First of all, very nice project :)

Due to the confinement I have a bit of extra free time. @jb-leger is interested in adding a pressure sensitive feature and suggested I take a look at it. I did a little POC here https://github.com/FloChehab/whiteboard/tree/feat/pressure_drawing .

By doing so, I was thinking about updating the code base to ES6+ and adding some tooling (webpack, babel, etc.) to change the way libs are handled, simplify the code base and make it easier to dive in / extend.

As this would require a big refactoring / rewrite, adding dependencies, etc. I wonder if you'd be interested in such a thing: I won't do it, if you don't want it.

[cracker0dks]

oh, I thought about the pressure feature as well. Nice Demo! As improvement maybe disable the feature on pc or devices without the pressure function, because they are not able to draw a long thin line anymore :)

Thanks for your offer.
A refactoring would be nice. I personaly like apps where you don't need to build for every little change you make in the code. So don't know if we really need a build system for such a "small" project. Do you find it hard to add / change things in the project? Where do you see the biggest problems right now?

[FloChehab]

I do like simplicity. Still, I personally prefer when things are a bit more modularized / in several files. Which requires some kind of a build chain with Javascript.

I see the following other advantages of having a JS build chain:

• Being able to use latest Js features (great for devs) while still transpiling to "older" Javascript for compatibility,
• Bundling your dependencies with your code,
• Outputting one single Js file so you are sure things are executed in the right order,
• Creating uniquely identified Js files so you don't have to worry about browser caching when releasing a new version.

Also with Javascript we should be able to have hot reloading so it wouldn't be necessary to reload the webpage or rebuild in dev.

If you are ok, I can take a bit of time to set up such a build chain for this project ; we shall see if we move forward with a bit of refactoring later.

[cracker0dks]

ok, lets give it a try. Please keep it simple :)

[FloChehab]

Well, it took me a bit more time than I thought, but the result is here: #39

Even if I don't know how I could make it more complicated, I think it is fairly simple :)

[cracker0dks]

Thanks again 👍