[META] Ideas for version 3.x

Problem/Motivation

We keep this issue for throwing ideas and discussion about version 3.x.

Ideas for 3.x

• Try to have page regions (other then main content) region that are more paragraphs layout friendly.
• Removing on theme-options.yml should allow us to use https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-cached or similar solution to speed up sass:dev task when developing CSS.
• Automated tests implementation and test coverage.
• Use CSS variables
• Use https://github.com/tancredi/fantasticon for SVG to font generation.
• Use Bootstrap responsive font sizes and spacing units based on browser viewport dimension. This replace two previous points.
• Bootstrap components implementation with the help of components module. →
• Consider mixing utilities and semantically clean approach in HTML and CSS.
• Bootstrap 5 does not require jQuery any more. Try to remove as much as possible jQuery from our custom JS code.
• [LOW prio] Some kind of pattern generator for static site, https://patternlab.io/docs/ or https://fractal.build/guide/