Dojo Roadmap

Future

Future features and ideas for Dojo.

Server side rendering support.
Enhanced VDOM scheduler for better perceived performance
Built-in VDOM windowing support
New CLI testing command dedicated for unit tests
Zero config code splitting based on build time rendering heuristics for the critical path
Dojo application dashboard, building on the existing dojo bundle analyzer
Dojo browser development tools

July 2021

The Dojo framework 8.0.0 release.

Support for TypeScript 4.1 (#892)
Support for custom resource APIs (#878)
Create resource templates based on the Data and Api type of a widget (#889, #891)
Support nested transforms when resources are passed down through multiple widgets (#880)
Support special head tag for rendering node in the document head (#805)
Wildcard routing (#766)
Support redirect in routing configuration (#867, #868, #869, #900)
Refines the create template function APIs (#866)
Add intrinsic element types (#796, #814)
Re-use DOM nodes when moving widgets and nodes in a list (#799)
Allow numbers in vdom (#781)
Support optional query params in routing configuration (#901)
Add onUpdate and onDetach APIs for dom pragma (#829)
Lazy load custom elements on demand (#825)
Adds support for event proxying and event options (#856)
Add map shim to Outlet (#860)
pending API to expose the state of asynchronous icache setters (#862, #865)
Custom element resource support (#815)
Start to decouple dom completely from vdom (#883)
Add block middleware mock (#798)
Allow finding and modifying wrapped widgets in functional children (#780, #851)
Use the middleware key as the middleware id in the test renderer (#859)
Support testing widgets with nested typed children (#898)

Expand types for insert after/before (#802)
Only run the inert middleware when the properties have been changed (#888)
Add function to create "typed" version of middleware (#819)
Rendering for multiple nested head and body nodes (#812)
Cache the function wrapper, no need to recreate each render. (#903)
Ensure that resources are correctly initialised even if the resource already has been previous created. (#861)
Make inputs partially only controlled (#887)
Take in to account virtual nodes when hydrating an existing DOM structure (#896)
Always pass the target attribute to the anchor tag for Link regardless of whether the event is intercepted (#907)
Register the messages for all locales (#908)
Fix mock middleware types (#822)
Handle ignored children in decorate (#840)
Wrap children result in an array if not already in one (#844)
Support setting properties on named children that are a render result for assertions (#854)
Update insertSiblings type definition (#872)
Pass inserted flag correctly to deferred props in test renderers (#881)
Fix the typings for the arguments on the test renderer child api (#871)

June 2020

The Dojo framework 7.0.0 release.

Typed children support for function-based widgets (#544, #554, #561, #582)
Add isExact options to ActiveLink (#520)
Live binding to function-based widget properties and children (#564, #665)
Check attached node is in the body (#579)
Provide helper middleware api type (#580)
Enable cache eviction with the icache (#605)
Inert shim (#619)
Support multiple CSS transition classes (#628)
Inert middleware (#623)
focus middleware testing mock (#635)
validity middleware testing mock (#631)
Type nls keys from the i18n format function (#610)
Support passing null to the domNode on .mount( (#652)
Influence property values with diffProperties middleware (#653)
Support specifying an additional property to be considered part of the widget key (#661)
Support automatic and lazy loading of CLDR data in i18n (#657, #677, #686, #693, #694, #724)
Unmount an application (#680)
Dojo Resources (#672, #778)
Support setting and changing theme variants at runtime (#684, #711, #720)
"slot" support for Dojo custom elements (#714, #721)
Object and array attribute support for custom elements #756
Forwards-compatibility for TypeScript 3.8 (#719)
Configure document title on route change (#725)
Skip setting the route when working with build time rendering and using the development server (#729)
On-demand Build Time Rendering (#246)
Set document title for build time rendered pages (#260)
.dojorc schema validation for @dojo/cli-build-app (#324)

August 2019

The Dojo framework 6.0.0 release.

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