Roadmap

Features for 1.0.0 (Future)

• Optimization module
  • CSS merging, cleanup, minification, and optimization support.
  • HTML minification and optimization support.
  • Image validator and optimizer for production deployment.
• HTML caching in Local Storage for offline and faster cached loading
• Convenience functionality for deploying native applications
  • Windows
  • Mac
  • Linux
  • iOS
  • Android
• NativeFont to represent browser-rendered fonts
• Selectable Text in Canvas for copy/paste
• TextInput in Canvas for editable editable text
  • Editing features
  • Caret with customization support
  • Rich text segments
  • Multi-line support or explicit single-line support
• Stylized Components
  • Button
  • TextField
  • TextArea
  • Checkbox
  • RadioButton
  • ListSelection
• Update Components to only render when they need to (lazy rendering)
  • Disable rendering of offscreen or invisible components
• Update UIExamples to render using canvas and look a lot nicer
• RichText to render stylized text
  • DSL for cleanly representing
  • JSON format for inline, loading, and exporting
• Examples site and full cleanup of examples

Features for 0.11.0 (In-Progress)

• Communication generation functionality
  • Support for server communication to generate RESTful endpoints
  • Support auto-generation of client or server if not annotations defined for implementation
  • Avoid lookups from falling through the cracks if no end-point is found
  • Better support for lookup of implementation (avoid package and naming matching as it's easy to mess up)

Features for 0.10.0 (Released 2019.01.30)

• Better ScreenState support
• Proper Asynchronous and Non-Blocking Integration for HttpHandler and server implementations
• Screen.register support to apply specific variable changes that set on activate and remove on deactivate
• Better Server error logging (URL, request info, etc.)
• Better support for Path instead of String where practical
• Better RestfulHandler support for injection and multiple paths of data
• Updated Communication to ignore non-public methods
• Added Cookie support for SameSite
• Created FormSupport for better UI form integration and functionality
• Created Time.delay for cross-platform, asynchronous wait-state
• History.anchor to support easier SPA integration
• Updates and improvements to session functionality and configuration
• Added init() and load() to ScreenManager for more consistent and page-specific state management
• Better Error Handling support
• Fixed bugs in Communication moving from proprietary format to JSON
• Improvements to date header parsing
• Added session support to HttpClient
• Updated HttpClient to use an HttpClientConfig
• Updated Server.init to return Future for better asynchronous startup functionality
• Created basic Maintenance library to support application maintenance
• Improved UI functionality to better support measured
• Created HTMLTextInput
• Better UI support for existing elements
• Added proper binary support for WebSockets
• Added session config support to forceSecure to work with proxied situations better
• Added Modal trait for easier modal support in Bootstrap
• Complete re-write of SessionManager to be simpler to implement, and more powerful to use

Features for 0.9.0 (Released 2018.11.04)

• Introduction of cross-support for HTML components and Canvas components interworking
  • Removal of Renderer entirely and each canvas component has its own html.Canvas instance
  • Integration of z-index as depth value
  • Proper management of each component to position and size via HTML properties
  • Proper layering and testing of theme support
• Better text rendering performance with CachedFont
• Support for "reload on ratio change"
• Support for fixed zoom ratio for fixed applications that should not zoom
• Better event support
• Border
• Ignore events
• Overflow
• RateLimited for updateTransform and updateRendering
• Navigation between UI examples
• Creation of a new logo
• Major upgrade of URL support
• Addition of Component.root
• Shared core Component
• Cross-platform support for HttpClient
• Better support for error handling in HttpClient
• Auto-retry support for HttpClient
• HttpClient Interceptor functionality to handle before/after request/response
• Fix client-side error support
• HttpClient RateLimiter Interceptor
• Added DNS override support for HttpClient (for implementations that support it)
• Updating of JVMHttpClient to use OkHttp instead of Apache HttpAsyncClient
• Simplification and optimization of Color
• HTML support for fonts
• Creation of GoogleFont integration with WebFontLoader
• Server-side filtering and DSL for routing
• Updated to latest version of dependencies
• Updated HttpStatus to be represented as a case class
• Added ValidationError support
• Created Restful trait to more easily build server-side services
• Early stage Bootstrap functionality support
• Added HttpRequest.timestap to include knowledge of when the request was made
• Creation of Dimension type
• Added depth support for Component
• Screen.title functionality to manage the browser's title
• Better measuring support
• Improvements to error support (proper traces) in Scala.js
• Parallax scrolling support introduced
• Created LocalStorage and SessionStorage functionality to simplify working with client-side storage and retrieval
• General purpose Delta functionality in the server
• Created ProxyCache to support local caching and serving of remote resources
• Simplification of Session support
• Added dom support for byName and oneByName
• Updated ServerApplication.addTemplate to support Content lookup instead of requiring a java.io.File directory
• Removed UI elements auto-firing overrides for attributes and styles
• Preliminary EmailAddress support
• Created BytesContent as a Content implementation to represent an Array[Byte]
• Added math operators for Size

Features for 0.8.0 (Released 2017.10.27)

• Major cleanup and simplification of Component internals
  • Migration back to ui module instead of canvas
  • Inherent support for devicePixelRatio and backingStoreRatio to properly render scaled and HiDPI
• Drawable core infrastructure
  • Font
    • Trait for multiple implementations
    • OpenTypeFont
      • Update to latest version of OpenType.js
      • Fixes for consistent font height
    • WrapMode (None, Clip, Ellipsis, Hyphenate, and Word) support
  • Text
    • Pre-defined and sized paths for text from Font
    • Extend Drawable to allow explicit drawing
  • Image
    • Extend Drawable to allow explicit drawing
    • AnimatedImage to support multi-framed images sequenced with delays between frames.
  • Video
    • Extend Drawable to allow explicit drawing
    • Controls and information
  • Drawable for most simplistic drawing functionality
  • Group for simplistic child drawing functionality
  • Transformable for mix-in of transformation matrix
  • Cacheable for mix-in of pre-rendering to canvas instance
  • Clipped for clipping the drawing area
• Component re-design
  • ImageView component
  • TextView component
  • VideoView component
  • Cleanup of Context to better utilize Path.fix
  • Update Path to utilize Context
  • Improve Path rendering performance
    • General optimizations
    • Support Path2D
  • Cleanup and re-working on component package and build on Drawable functionality to reduce complexity
• Move template module into its own project
• Activate support for checked and unchecked to work with checkboxes easily

Features for 0.7.0 (Released 2017.09.25)

• ScrollBar visual support
• ComponentPaint for better integration of Image and Video painting
• Paint.modified to support mutating paints
• Widget as common root for canvas and hypertext Components
• Layout migration to build on Widget instead of Component
• Flow layout
• Opacity on Component in Canvas
• Create Component.actual for pre-multiplied values
• Convenience functionality in HttpHandlerBuilder to create a restful end-point
• Better error handling support in HttpClient
• Event propagation in canvas
• GoogleFonts integration
• Streaming Content support in HttpResponse
  • Convenience functionality for streaming ZIP
• Fixes and improvements regarding proxying functionality
• Update ServerApplication.addTemplate to work as proper fallback (not apply if content is already defined by another handler)

Features for 0.6.0 (Released 2017.09.03)

• Migration of ui module to be a cross-project instead of Scala.js only
• Added RoundedRectangle to drawable functionality
• Create utilities module for internal code generation and other external functionality
  • Create KeyBuilder to support MDN standards generation of Key class from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEvent/key/Key_Values
• Update Key to use KeyboardEvent.key as mapping for better compliance to latest spec
• Replace direct use of KeyboardEvent in hypertext and component with KeyEvent
• Layout support in AbstractContainer
  • VerticalLayout
  • GridLayout
• Update dom Template to utilize Profig instead of limiting to environment variable for load path
• New spatial package to do matrix and other spatial math
• Remove uPickle and rely exclusively on Circe for pickling
• Add better functionality to build FormDataContent
• Support multipart form posting in youi-client
• Update URL interpolator to only accept literals for proper compile-time validation
• DataTransferManager to provide better and more consistent drag-and-drop and file chooser functionality with directory support
• Update Color to be an AnyVal wrapper to use the memory footprint of a Long
• Selection HTML feature for rectangular and individual selection
• Upgrade to direct canvas functionality instead of using Pixi.js
• Border support in Component
• Padding support in Component
• Scrolling Container support
  • Mouse support
  • Touch support
• AbstractContainer only draws children within viewable area for better performance
• Support Client to Server basic logging for better information control from the server.
• Upgrade to SBT 1.0
• Texture, Gradient, and Video paint support

Features for 0.5.0 (Released 2017.07.23)

• TypedContainer for better hierarchical type-safety
• Major cleanup and simplification of writing a web application
  • Provide simple classes to extend for client, server, and shared
  • SBT plugin to simplify build setup (especially management and sharing of generated JS)
  • Ability to create an app with only three classes (client, server, and shared)
  • Standardize Scala.js generation via SBT plugin
    • output "application.js" to "jvm/src/main/resources/app/" path
    • convenience functionality to inject Scala.js file into a handler
  • Communication.connection should have a default implementation to avoid expecting it as an implementation
  • Remove the necessity of SinglePageApplication by making optional configuration in the application
  • Provide a mechanism to need only extend YouIApplication trait and Client/Server Application
  • Remove necessary cached method implementation in ClientApplication
  • Remove "main" method requirement entirely and use Profig as launching point
  • Provide support in Screen to leverage io.youi.http for path matching functionality (URLMatcher)
  • Create an example project (https://github.com/outr/youi-example)
  • Add a getting started tutorial to the wiki

Features for 0.4.0 (Released 2017.06.17)

• Update Pixi.js facade to use JSDeps
• On-demand rendering capabilities for exceptional performance
• Workflow rendering tied to elements to allow pausing when invisible
• CanvasComponent for specialized drawing using HTML5 Canvas
• DrawableComponent to simplify and maintain stateful drawing backed by CanvasComponent
  • Text integration using https://github.com/nodebox/opentype.js
  • Complete SVG rendering support (Canvg)
• Complete Paint functionality
  • Fill integration
  • Stroke wrapper
  • Gradients
  • Texture
  • Color
• HTMLComponent to render HTML components on top of Canvas with the same transformations
• RectangularSelection tool
  • Move and Resize Support
  • Minimum and Maximum constraints
  • Aspect ratio constraints
  • Complete Touch support
• Texture clipping support
• Scale-9 Support
• Basic Video Component
• AbstractContainer to better support custom components and more explicit containers
• ImageUtility
  • Smooth and clean image resizing functionality
  • File to Image loading with Future
• SizeUtility for width/height scaling functionality
• MouseWheel support in component
• Snap Layout Management (ex. Snap(b3).leftTo(b1.position.left).rightTo(b2.position.right).topTo(b1.position.bottom + 5.0))
• Touch / Mobile support
  • Proper drag support
  • Pinch events
  • Acceleration
• Additional event support
  • Upgraded Component events for multi-touch
  • Long-press
  • Double-click
• ImageEditor
  • Selection area
  • Cropping
  • Scaling
  • Rotation
  • Panning
  • Upload local file
  • Preview instances
  • Complete Touch support

Features for 0.3.0 (Released 2017.04.21)

• Optimization: JavaScript merging, cleanup, minification, obfuscation, and optimization support.
• Simplify connectivity / communication functionality
• Hierarchical update calls to allow scoping of animations, graphical layout, and other functionality.
• Complete re-write of JavaScript error logging and support.
• Integration of basic HTML components for UI (Scala.js)
  • Button
  • Container
  • ImageView
  • Label
  • TextInput
  • TextArea
• Integration of Pixi.js for more advanced UI functionality (Scala.js)
  • Canvas / Integration with HTML
  • Events
  • Container
  • Image
  • Text
  • Shapes
• Animation and workflow functionality
  • Task
  • Action
  • Temporal
  • Parallel and Sequential
  • Sleep
  • Easings integration
  • DSL
• Layout Managers
  • Core Support
  • BoxLayout
  • GridLayout
  • FlowLayout

Features for 0.2.0 (Released 2017.02.27)

• Complete SSL support (binding and proxying)
• Ajax Request / Response framework
• XML Content Modification Streams for any XML / HTML content
• Compile-time HTML injection into Scala.js from existing template
• Shared Var - shared state modifiable on client or server
• History Management convenience functionality (Scala.js)
• YouIApplication to simplify client/server functionality
  • General WebSocket connectivity support
  • Communication support
  • Streaming convenience functionality
  • Pages functionality (JVM)
  • Filter support on HttpHandlers
  • Screens functionality (Scala.js)
  • Receive JavaScript errors on server for logging
  • Client auto reload on server stop / restart
• Template features
  • Includes
  • Server for faster testing
  • Real-time updates in browser
  • LESS and SASS support
• HTTP Client
  • Basic HTTP request / response using abstraction
  • Fully and properly asynchronous and non-blocking
  • Restful support for case class serialization and deserialization

Features for 0.1.0 (Released 2016.12.22)

• Scala JVM and JS support
• URL implementation offering good parsing and flexibility
  • compile-time interpolation
• Server abstraction with HttpRequest and HttpResponse allowing for multiple implementations
  • Undertow implementation
• HttpHandler prioritization and flow to allow handlers to build upon each other
• IPv4 and IPv6 wrapper classes
• TestServerImplementation for easy unit testing
• Full Cookie support
• Wrapper for standard ContentTypes
• WebSocket support through abstraction
• Proxying support and optional ProxyingSupport trait to be mixed into Server
• Session support
• Communication implementation supporting client and server with JVM and JS support