Modernize codebase

Before starting on new complex features, I would like to spend some time modernizing the codebase. The project was created with React 0.11 or something, and since, a lot of things changes, in best practices, APIs, etc.

Everything is on the table, from status quo to rewriting the whole thing.

Big ideas:

• And what about Next.js / Nuxt.js? Is it a good idea with Electron?
• If we stick with React:
  • Move to FC, more hooks, less classes
  • Get rid of Bootstrap completely, use Reakit for accessible components?
  • Update ESLint rules
  • Move to redux-toolkit
• Move more business logic to the main process
• Add tests
  • ~Unit-tests for reducers (via Jest)~ setup done
  • Integration / E2E tests with Cypress
• Create binaries on GitHub actions
  • macOS code-signing
• Electron
  • Get rid of electron.remote
• …

[martpie]

Cypress is the way to go for e2e tests right now, and I would not see myself using anything else.

The reason I’m not starting this big thing now is because I am thinking on a UI-focused update, and it would not make a lot of sense to write a lot of integration/e2e tests to update them just after this work is done.

But this is definitely on my todo list.

[martpie]

I don’t believe in component testing (it’s often really badly done).

Unit for utils/pure functions + e2e should be more than enough