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I'm assuming you researched a lot of other DND libraries when building. Did any stand out to you that were better than the rest? IE supporting nested structures, and looked to be programmed well. In my research I found about 8-10 of them and just thought... ugh, I will do this later, to decide between them

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Well, there are obvious leading contenders like `https://sortablejs.github.io/Sortable/` and, within the `vue` space, `https://sortablejs.github.io/vue.draggable.next/`. Most of the stuff I looked at was unmaintained (lots not updated for vue3).

I really disliked the vuedraggable was handling nesting, and it's just a wrapper around a sortable. At the end of the day, my problem was simple enough that I didn't want a 500kb dependency. If you're wanting to do something like the OP but with nesting, I'd definitely start by looking at Sortable, though (maybe wrapping it the way you want).

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