Tech Debt: `react-outside-click-handler` is not maintaned anymore, we need to maintain our own
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Description
### Description of the Tech Debt
Given that `react-outside-click-handler` is not maintained anymore, there is an increasing risk of it either being pulled from NPM or depending on vulnerable packages in a hard-to-fix way.
Given that the whole thing is less than 100 lines of code, a solution would be to take ownership of it in our code (it's MIT-licensed): https://github.com/airbnb/react-outside-click-handler/blob/master/src/OutsideClickHandler.jsx
#### Tech Debt Triage
The purpose of our technical debt triage process is to analyze technical debt to determine risk level of the technical debt and the value in tackling that technical debt.
#### Risk Value Scoring:
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| Medium |
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| Technical Debt - Risk Types | Level | Value |
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| Business Area Risk - Risk of business area visibility / damage to user experience | | |
| Developer Fault Risk - How likely will this tech debt cause a future error related to coding on top of it | | |
| System Fault Risk - Risk of system errors or application downtime | | |
| Time Scale Risk - Compound risk effect if left alone. How much more difficult to fix or dangerous will this become over time? | | |
| Time Sink Risk - How much will this tech debt slow the development process down | | |
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Research direction
Start by locating where react-outside-click-handler is declared and used, then compare the integration with the referenced src/OutsideClickHandler.jsx implementation. Confirm the replacement preserves the current outside-click behavior and that the unmaintained dependency can be removed; the issue does not name project files or tests to run.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- react
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100