OpenVue as an alternative to PrimeVue

[NJevric]

Enhancement

Hi everyone

I noticed that the Lychee frontend currently runs on PrimeVue 4 (primevue ^4.5.5 in package.json)

For teams looking to keep their frontend stack on an actively maintained community driven MIT foundation based on the 4.x lineage I wanted to share OpenVue

OpenVue is an open source fork based directly on PrimeVue 4.5.5 under the MIT license Because it maintains strict API component and theming parity with the 4.x base it serves as a drop in replacement allowing migration in just a few minutes without refactoring existing UI code

We recently reached our 1.0.0 stable release and are continuously maintaining and updating the codebase for the community

Since Lychee is an MIT licensed project that people run on their own servers having an actively maintained MIT option for the 4.x line might be worth considering as the frontend stack evolves

The migration is a single command that shows a plan first and asks before writing anything

npx @openvue/migrate

It renames the dependencies and rewrites the imports including @primeuix/themes which you also use and it leaves primeicons and tailwindcss-primeui in place so icons and the Tailwind setup are not touched

Here are a few quick references if you would like to explore

Migration Guide https://openvue.dev/migrate

Documentation https://openvue.dev/

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/openvi-foundation/openvue

Would love to hear the team thoughts and I am happy to help answer any technical questions if anyone decides to give it a try

Thanks for taking a look

[ildyria]

I totally agree with you on PrimeVue, and I already killed it.
There is a new front-end in the making. Everything has already been migrated to https://ui.nuxt.com/ I am currently ironing the corners (e.g. timeline not working in albums as expected) before releasing it (v8 will come with its own share of additions too).

When I started working on the migration out of Primetek due to the license change, openvue did not exist yet, otherwise that would have been my targeted state.

[NJevric]

Thanks for the reply,

Good luck with the new frontend and the upcoming v8 release!

[ildyria]

It is already mostly accessible, if you check the config/features.php you will find which environment variable to set to enable it.
I am currently looking for feedback on it. :)