Move away from jquery and materilize.css

[butlerx]

Jquery can slow down the pages load.

replace matericalizecss with this will remove its need for it
https://github.com/material-components/material-components-web

[VoyTechnology]

What are our choices as jQuery alternatives? Going with some full on framework would not be ideal either, but DOM manipulation is a must.

[butlerx]

pure js

[butlerx]

slight aside material-components is not a drop in replacement for materializecss

[SeanHealy33]

How big of an issue is this?

Seems like premature optimisation IMO

[butlerx]

tbh thats not much left to optimize aside the on page javascript

[SeanHealy33]

I do like the idea of using a smaller JS lib for styling since there's tonnes of unused weight in that.

[butlerx]

since we mainly use the card interface and the jquery on the front end is mostly for the countdown i dont see a reason not to