I think we must take this step forward as part of the network feature. Most likely we will need to build a completely new and complex page (product finder) or maybe two (a replacement for products list/inventory page).
By “this step” I mean, we need to use this as an opportunity to define and start implementing our UI tech strategy for the future.
I just add another close look at tabler. @jonleighton I wonder what are the pros and cons of relying on tabler. Would this be a dependency we would keep upgrading and adapting to? I see you have put it in vendors in your branch, I wonder if this would not be upgraded and we would be tweaking these templates as we go. That would mean the pros would be:
- freedom from it as a dependency
- a good head start compared to building something from bootstrap only
I cant see any con, I wonder what are the alternatives to tabler apart from basic bootstrap.
We currently use foundation which I think is the main alternative to bootstrap in the market.
We are on foundation 5.5.2.1 from May 2015, we could simply use latest foundation 6.5.3.0 to build the new UI.
This is tightly related to the UI framework we will be using (I see tabler has projects in react, angular and also vuejs). I also posted in the UI framework upgrade thread just now.