Make front-end templates more idiomatic

Right now the front-end templates used by create-near-app aren’t very idiomatic. It would be nice to improve this by creating libraries for each front-end framework like https://www.npmjs.com/package/near-react-hooks.

This has two major advantages:

1. the developer experience is much better as the NEAR code fits in better with the chosen framework
2. it will be easier to incorporate NEAR into existing applications by using the framework specific library directly.

If this is of interest I’d be happy to update the current react template to use near-react-hooks. Also I can work on creating an angular service library and a vue plugin.

[mehtaphysical]

Nice! ok i see the vision now. Seems legit to me!

[chadoh]

I’m with you that near-api-js needs to support better code completion & inline documentation. And I agree that the use of window variables is unusual. (As an aside, for TypeScript projects there is a way around the lack of code completion with window variables: create a window.d.ts file. It seems like this would add potential errors to a generated JS project though, and would add cognitive overhead for developers in any case.)

Here are some ideas that will guide upcoming improvements to near-api-js; I’d love to get your thoughts: https://github.com/near-examples/guest-book/pull/161

I believe that this would also accomplish our shared goals of great code-completion and removing window dependencies.