2024 Roadmap

2024 Roadmap and Planning

This Roadmap is a living document and will continue to evolve. We have no dedicated timelines and work on the following initiatives as best we can. Any and all community support is welcome!

• Support existing issues board
• Modernize Tooling
• Documentation Improvements
• Functional Components
• Reducing Vendor Dependencies
• New events system based on context and hooks
• New provider system for passing props to children
• Improvements to animation system
• Additional Chart Types
• Performance Improvements

Modernize Tooling

• Complete jest conversion and upgrade (improves build) ✅
• Complete babel upgrade (improves build and reduces bundle size) ✅
• Complete Typescript upgrade (reduces bundle size) ✅

Documentation

• Consider moving to docusaurus 3 to align with other projects ✅
• Improve the gallery and add all demos charts ✅
• Cleanup sidebar navigation and improve readability✅
• Add HMR to docs pages with incremental builds ✅

Functional Components

• Convert class components to functional components #2778

Reducing Vendor Dependencies

• Fully convert to Typescript ✅
• Remove prop-types dependencies ✅
• Reduce dependency on lodash #2711

Event System

• Modernize the event system to use hooks

Prop Drilling

• Modernize the way props are drilled into child components

Animation

• Plan for improvements to the animation system #2104

Charts

• Mercator Projection
• Hexbin
• Bubble Map
• Tree Map
• Cash Flow / Funds Flow
• Violin Plot #1611
• Spider Graph #1610
• Gantt Chart #2769
• Heat Map #262