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We're so 2015, we still use JQuery

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm not a great fan of Javascript. However, any time someone suggests that we move to using some framework like Angular, I feel a bit like this: https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f Disclaimer: Actually, we do use Grunt, and I considered using it to minify our JS code right at the beginning, but we still haven't gotten around to it. Related issues on our issue tracker: manage third-party javascript libraries used by UI Discussion thread about the REST API URLs Discussion thread about the REST endpoint's data format Try out AngularJS for the front end