Integrate webix datatable

[Ingvord]

Proof of the concept

[sonarcloud]

Quality Gate passed

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[Ingvord]

This method shows various possible (not all though) column configuration options. See Configuring Columns for more details

[Ingvord]

webix Datatable creation and configuration

[sbliven]

Looks intriguing. Could the column filters replace the "Filter by..." sidebar?

How is the performance? Do the sort and filter use the same indexes as in the previous implementation?

[Ingvord]

Hi Spencer, thanks for the feedback. Those are client side filtering and sorting handled by webix. From my other projects I can say it can easily handle up 10K records. Hence I do not think it should replace the search facets.

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[nitrosx]

Thanks for the proof-of-concept.
I'm hesitant to include another full fledged toolkit in the FE just to add the table feature.
I worry that we are going to complicate more the code and make it even more difficult to manage and maintain.

[Ingvord]

Hi Max, thanks for the feedback! Webix has many more widgets, not just tables. I would assume to replace all visual components with it, hence provide consistent look and feel experience. However, I agree with you. This will introduce whole new abstraction layer and may increase complexity and maintenance costs.

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[sbliven]

We talked about this PR in the meeting today. A couple concerns came up.

1. Pricing Are all the features we would need available in webix standard (the GPL version)? IMO webix pro licenses are out of the question.
2. Client-side filtering. I think users would be very confused that filters are done client side and apply only to the current page of results. I think it needs to be done server-side like the facets, or else it should be omitted from the table.
3. Maintenance. It seems like adding webix would increase the complexity of the frontend significantly, and could increase the maintenance burden. I get that this is just a proof of concept, but while the sorting and resizing features shown here would be nice they would hardly be worth it if they make the frontend harder to maintain and develop. Do you see some "killer features" that would have a high impact on the user experience that would come with webix but not available with the current framework?

[Ingvord]

Following the discussions at SciCatCon 2024 I will repurpose this PR to demonstrate how to plugins in SciCat FE