Review javascript dependencies

[nijel]

Describe the problem

Many of our JavaScript dependencies haven't received updates for years:

Datasource	Name	Last Updated
npm	@popperjs/core	2023-05-26
npm	autosize	2023-02-13
npm	css-loader	2024-05-22
npm	daterangepicker	2020-05-24
npm	moment	2023-12-27
npm	mousetrap	2020-01-23
npm	mousetrap-global-bind	2016-10-25
npm	multi.js	2021-02-22
npm	slugify	2023-03-26
npm	source-code-pro	2021-04-12
npm	source-sans	2021-09-07
npm	tributejs	2020-03-25

Solution brainstorm

We should review those and seek maintained alternatives.

Probably to be done after #2916 so that we can base on newer foundation.

Describe alternatives you have considered

No response

Screenshots

No response

Additional context

#8486 has the full list of possibly abandoned dependencies.

[KarenKonou]

One more thing we could consider is moving away from jQuery. It doesn't enable much compared to modern vanilla JS and it'd allow us to remove another fairly big JS dependency.

[nijel]

Yes, that's definitely desirable. Actually, portions of code are already written without jQuery.

[KarenKonou]

These are the dependencies that are unmaintained that we should aim to replace and some ideas on their replacements:

• DateRangeTime: In progress replacement with a custom implementation in feat: new date range picker implementation #19046
• Autosize: Could possibly also be reimplemented or the functionality replicated with CSS
• Mousetrap and mousetrap-global-bind: Could be replaced with hotkeys-js
• Multi.js: Maybe we could use something like tom-select
• Tribute-js: We could potentially implement this functionality with autocomplete.js that we already have

Additionally, popperjs is bundled with bootstrap, so we could skip bundling it separately ourselves.

After these deps issues are resolved, we can focus on replacing jQuery usage, eventually deprecating it completely.

[nijel]

Sounds good. Let's try to do this for the 5.18 release.