The road to the next major

[josemarluedke]

We have been working on version 0.17 alpha builds for a few months now. The new version includes major changes in styling and some breaking changes in components, as well as many new components. Below are a few things I would like to see completed before releasing the next major version. We would probably release 0.17 stable with the legacy forms and changeset-from pkg, but they will be dropped before v1.

New features

• Input
  • loading state, natively?
  • Clear button feat: add option to clear content of input & (start/end)ContentPointerEvents arg #288
  • Start and End content feat: add startContent and endContent named blocks to input #282
• Select
  •  Loading state
  •  Ability to render content for the selected item
  •  Filter/search
    •  no results message
    •  optional filter function
  •  ability to use Native Select in forms pkg
  •  Scroll shadow
  •  Multiple with chips
  •  Clear button feat: add startContent/endContent to Select/NativeSelect & Clear Butt… #290
  •  Selected item should be scrolled into view
  • Focus Ring
  • Dropdown size -> auto
  • Test helpers to select, clear and others.
• Button
  • Loading state @busy attribute on <Button/> #68
  • onClick / onPress argument
• Listbox
  • Groups / Sections
  • Sub menu
  • Focus Ring
• Dropdown
  • Allow changing the dropdown content size, default to auto.
  • Pass event to onAction argument.
• Modal / Drawer / Overlay
  • Make animation is executed when rendering modal initially open

Refactors

• Portals
  • Move renderInPlace to something else
  • Try to remove the need for renderInElement (specifically in tests)
• Rolling focus
  • Button Group
  • ?
• Move class fields to new object for style-variants
• Move away from appearance and intent arguments -> variant & color, matches most UI libraries

Docs

• New Forms pkg
• Deprecate ChangesetForm PKG
• Rework
  • Drawer
  • Modal
  • Overlay
  • Notifications
• Docs issue in Popover Focus Trapping
• Document style slots
• Theming
• How to keep docs for older Frontile versions?
• Implement StoryBook
• Mention lack of onchange/oninout on date field, issue When does onChange / onInput fire for date and datetime-local Input fields? #292

Other issues

• Add config to disable overlay animations globally Add config to disable overlay animations globally #219

New components

• Autocomplete ? Or use Select?
• Avatar
• Alert
• Tabs
• Pagination
• External Link ?
• Skeleton
• Input OTP
• Date picker
• Switch
• File Uploader
• Tooltip
• Spinner (loading) feat: add Spinner component to utilities pkg #281

New components are nice to have, but most of them are not required.