React DayPicker 8

v8 will be a TypeScript rewrite and will introduce some major, needed changes.

• See project https://github.com/gpbl/react-day-picker/projects/7
• Temporary website: https://react-day-picker-next.netlify.app
• Latest docs: https://github.com/gpbl/react-day-picker/tree/master/website/docs

Testing v8

Add the next version to the dependencies:

yarn add react-day-picker@next

v8 Objectives

• Rewrite the package to follow the latest React patterns
• Improve API and customization with custom components
• Resolve TypeScript typing issues by rewriting it in TypeScript
• Replace DayPickerInput with a more flexible alternative, e.g. an hook.
  • The component has a maintenance cost I can’t handle
• use date-fns as date utility peer dependency
• have a browserstack functional tests
• have a new website

Notes

• DayPickerInput seems very popular and removing it can make difficult the upgrade.
• Need to be React +16.8
• Likely we will need to maintain v7 for a while

Please help 🙏🏾

With more than 1M download per month, react-day-picker needs love

It is time consuming to work alone on this project, organize the repository, write documentation, the functional tests, and the upgrade guides (not native speaker here).

Please help, talk on https://spectrum.chat/react-day-picker

I started this project five years ago as a way to contribute to the awesome React community. I’ve learnt a lot, I had a lot of fun, and met the best developers thanks to it.

However, after all these years, the old codebase is not much fun to maintain and after so many changes, the code is not as good as it should. Developers started filling issues on Github, and the glorious OSS experience I had so far hit me to the point I didn’t want to read Github notifications anymore.

Surprisingly tho, downloads never stopped to grow and this library is still popular! People continue to send PRs, and some even wrote me that it would be sad to see this library to die. These nice messages have been highly motivational so I’m here again ❤️

[gpbl]

Good news everybody!

I could publish a first alpha version on npm:

yarn add react-day-picker@next

• See project https://github.com/gpbl/react-day-picker/projects/7
• Temporary website: https://react-day-picker-next.netlify.app (not updated yet)
• Latest docs: https://github.com/gpbl/react-day-picker/tree/master/website/docs

I’d love someone helping me, as I will be busy in the next weeks.

• documentation, proof reading
• PR reviews
• pick up something from the project

[KyorCode]

Is there a roadmap for Alpha and Beta releases on NPM?

Would be very interested to know this 😃