RFC: PrimeNg styling

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Since July 2024, the Design System is providing styles for primeng. This package was released to support projects using the primeng datatable component due to a lack of an alternative Design System component.

Datatable

One of the principles of the Design System is to be technology agnostic. This principle ensures that we're able to deliver our patterns to the diverse landscape of technology used at the Post (Angular, React, Vue, plain HTML/CSS/JS). After evaluating multiple libraries, AG Grid stood out as the industries gold standard for datatables while fulfilling our principle to deliver to any web technology. The Design System Team is working on providing styling support for this solution.

Theming

From v18 to v19, primeNg completely revamped their styling approach, switching from Sass to a JS based theming provider. Maintaining a prime-ng theme is a heavy investment from the side of the Design System team. Maintaining two concurrent solutions is not feasible long term because our budget is very limited. However, we have a strong interest in supporting project teams with solutions that work for them.

Plan

Considering this, we'd like to keep providing a minimal set of styling for primeng in the mid-term future. During this time, we are going to be working hard to provide technology agnostic solutions for the most commonly used patterns. Once alternatives are available, we would like to reduce maintenance efforts on the primeng theme.

Your advice

We'd like to hear the voice of our community on this matter: what advice would you give the Design System team?