Upgrade to Vaadin 10 to support Web Components

[kennethbruskiewicz]

Proposed enhancement.

Due to previous discussions over the past three weeks, it became clear that one path for adding value to TKBio is to revise our search entry-point, revise our table display, and potentially revise our graph visualization (in that order).

This may require us to rapidly extend the Vaadin library if there are no closely analogous components to what we are looking to achieve.

Vaadin 10 has given support for the W3 Web Components Standard. Advantages of Vaadin adhering to this standard is the introduction of HTML5-driven interactions (while maintaining backwards-compatibility with their existing library) that can be decoupled from the rest of the system.

This signifies a potential efficiency gain in implementing custom components and expanding the suite of expertise available to our project. I will look into whether there are any backwards-compatibility issues and try for an upgrade.

[kennethbruskiewicz]

References

• Vaadin Flow
• Basic Web Component Integration with Vaadin
• Web Components Directory