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Dependency on Giraffe feels excessive for the amount of HTML templating performed by the library

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5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
fsharp
Domain
web-dev

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Start by locating the Giraffe dependency and the library's HTML templating code. Determine whether the dependency can be removed without plans for substantially more templating; done means the dependency is no longer required while existing HTML output remains supported.

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The Giraffe dependency should be reconsidered.

I understand it simplifies the HTML templating code - but really, the cost of the additional dependency is excessive, and there isn't that much HTML templating in the library anyway.

Unless there are plans to massively increase the amount of HTML templating in a future version of Plotly.NET I would suggest refactoring away from the Giraffe dependency.

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