Trait add/remove can fail because collection type is inconsistent
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GrapesJS version [X] I confirm to use the latest version of GrapesJS What browser are you using? Brave Version 1.31.88 Chromium: 95.0.4638.69 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Linux Reproducible demo link https://jsfiddle.net/0a3o7cL6/ Describe the bug Methods which operate on a component's trait collection (e.g. addTrait and removeTrait) seem to always assume the collection will be the Backbone-derived collection type, however there are cases where it's a simple Array instead. The code then attempts to call methods which don't exist. I'm not familiar enough with the codebase to say for certain wh...
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Yeah, I'll fix it in the next release, thanks
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