Migration Guide to 2.x
Bye Bye jQueryUI... 👋🏻 welcome SortableJS 🚀
This new release is rather small for the developer, but a lot have changed internally and SortableJS will improve performance and usability since it also works great with touch. The main change for the developer would be if you use the Editors.autoComplete
which has changed to Editors.autocompleter
(same for Filters), and that's about it since the rest of the changes are mostly removal of deprecated things. If you want to know more about the reason behind the removal of jQueryUI (internally), then read the "Why replace jQueryUI with SortableJS?" section below.
Major Changes - Quick Summary
replaced jQueryUI with SortableJS
migrate to Kraaden Autocomplete (instead of jQueryUI)
NOTE: if you come from a version earlier than 1.x, it is very important that you follow the migrations in order
Removed Code
Since we dropped jQueryUI, and we were using jQueryUI Slider for the Filters.SliderRange, we had to remove the Slider Range and we don't currently have a replacement at the moment, though it might come in the future. Slider Range Filter is back in version v2.1.0 release (see Example 14).
@deprecated Code
Text Export Service (see code change sample below)
enableExport
was renamed toenableTextExport
exportOptions
was renamed totextExportOptions
SASS - Autocomplete
Since we replaced the jQueryUI Autocomplete with the 3rd party lib Kraaden Autocomplete (see below), there are a few SASS/CSS variables that we no longer need and were removed.
variables removed
$slick-autocomplete-box-shadow
$slick-autocomplete-border-radius
$slick-autocomplete-hover-color
$slick-autocomplete-hover-border-color
$slick-autocomplete-loading-input-bg-color
$slick-autocomplete-min-width
$slick-autocomplete-overflow-x
$slick-autocomplete-overflow-y
$slick-autocomplete-text-color
$slick-autocomplete-text-overflow
$slick-autocomplete-text-padding
Changes
Text Export Service
Here's an example of the code change that you need to do
Replaced JqueryUI Autocomplete with Kraaden Autocomplete
Since we dropped jQueryUI, we had to find an alternative for the AutoComplete Editor/Filter and we settled on the 3rd party lib Kraaden Autocomplete which does nearly everything that the jQueryUI one was providing. There are subtle changes requiring few line of code change (see below). We also have a new Autocomplete Editor (Kraaden) Wiki (and we kept a reference to the old jQueryUI AutoComplete Wiki for users of older Slickgrid-Universal versions).
You will notice that the Editor/Filter model
name is quite similar, there are only 2 chars that are different to make it clear that there's a change for the developer (a lower c
and a r
at the end of the word which is forming the new name model: Editors.autocompleter
and the same goes for AutocompleterOption
)
If you were using the Autocomplete onSelect
callback, it got renamed to onSelectItem
. If you were using openSearchListOnFocus
, then that is now simply showOnFocus
with the Kraaden Autocomplete (refer to Kraaden Autocomplete options, to use them in editorOptions
or filterOptions
)
Why replace jQueryUI with SortableJS?
Prior to this new version, jQueryUI had to be installed, that was even for a basic grid, but the fact was that the only jQueryUI feature we needed in SlickGrid was jQueryUI - Sortable for column reordering. Considering that SlickGrid required jQueryUI at 281Kb (js+css) just to get column reordering, we figured it was a rather large request, don't you think? We did use jQueryUI Autocomplete & Slider as well but the jQueryUI lib is rather large, is barely maintained and is now quite outdated. SortableJS is now the dependency used by SlickGrid and is a lot smaller and more up to date in the JS world.
jQueryUI Cons
old and outdated, barely supported and rather large (probably because it was written when IE5 was a thing)
it does not support Touch that well (mobile devices)
it is rather large at 250Kb (min.js) + 31Kb (min.css)
SortableJS Pros
much smaller at 44Kb (
min.js
doesn't require any css)touch friendly (mobile devices)
much smoother UX and better performance
written in pure JS without any dependencies
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