Moon v1 Roadmap

After a few betas, I think it’s time to lay out the final list of features or changes that still need to be implemented for the next release.

• Moon Executor

  • Perform view and diff phases over multiple frames.
  • Perform patch phase in one synchronous batch.

• Allow custom children to be set on data.
  Example:

  <div children={ children }/>
  

• <if>, <else-if>, and <else> components.

• <for> component.

  Example:

  <for={ $item in items }>
    <p>{ $item }</p>
  </for>
  

• Hoist static data, events, and children.

EDIT: This roadmap is outdated. The API referenced in this issue description has had a significant overhaul and is being iterated on! The current beta documentation is at moonjs.org.

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Here are some preliminary performance results! Keep in mind that these ran on my machine, and the results will likely be different when made official. However, it is useful for getting a good idea on where Moon stands.

I tested Moon, Inferno, Vanilla, and React. Moon appears to be the fastest! Still, I think that when these are ran on the official js-framework-benchmark machine, the results will differ. Specifically, I think that Vanilla along with some of the other low-level libraries will be faster.

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@haikyuu Thank you!

TypeScript support and integration is definitely something to have on the roadmap once Moon is more stable. Like you said, it’ll help with adoption and make Moon more approachable to existing apps.

And you’re totally right about a mobile driver! Something like that should be possible to do with Moon, although I don’t have too much experience with developing native mobile stuff — it should be an interesting learning experience and it’ll likely work similar to React Native.

For now, I’m iterating on Moon’s API as I build more side projects with it and learn about some of the common struggles that a different API design might mitigate. Thanks for the feedback and support, I really appreciate it 😃