DuskPlayer was started as a small project with a simple goal, to build a minimal music player with all the essentials. What started as a small project back in April 2018 now has thousands of users and has recieved bug fixes and updates for over 2 years now.
As I continue to maintain and enhance this application, after some thought, I have been considering switching to Svelte from AngularJS for the UI. You can read the reasons behind this below and also vote for your preference.
The main reasoning behind using a framework instead of vanilla HTML was simple, I wanted a dynamic application and a framework would make this much easier. The main features I needed were variable binding, conditional rendering and iterating with templates.
I picked AngularJS when I started because it was the simplest framework that provided all the features I required, had good documentation and ample community support.
Svelte is a relatively new framework that checks all the boxes that Angular did and has a couple of other benefits. Firstly, it's simpler to work with than Angular in my opinion and my hope is that more developers will be able to contribute to the project. Secondly, Angular is at the end of it's life. Lastly, on shifting to Svelte the whole application will become more modular and easier to work on.
If the switch is made, the current version of DuskPlayer will be shifted to a separate branch and all future updates will be made on the Svelte version. The new version will include all the features of the Angular version had, and will improve upon them.
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