v2.0.0 - v2.4.0

[mlaursen]

The v2 release (hopefully) improved a lot of problems encountered while developing with react-md but all of the functionality and components were not ported forward. Currently missing:

• Date and Time pickers
• Slider
• Bottom Navigation
• mini variants for the Layout/Navigation Drawer
• Stepper component (was never in v1, but was requested to be added)

There are also some additional features that would be nice to add that I found out while developing v2:

• ✅ raising dark mode elevation
• removing react-transition-group as a dependency since the @react-md/transition package should cover that behavior (only blocker is implementing the TransitionGroup behavior)
• convenience wrappers for handling form validation
• better way to handle controlling the visibility and value of components
• adding non-keyboard focusable/searchable items to the AutoComplete and other components that use the useKeyboardMovement hooks
• introducing reduced motion behavior with @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) and context API (I need to do more research for what is considered bad motion)

Finally, there are a few documentation improvements that still need to be done:

• improve the documentation site's search functionality
• implement API documentation for Typescript
• implement more examples within the SassDoc for mixin / variable usage
• improve the markdown renderer used throughout the site

Estimated Releases

After the v2 release, there will most likely be a lot of new bug/feature requests so these estimates might change but here is a first best guess at how I want to break up the work.

Not documented: during the time for these releases, I'll keep looking into the documentation improvements

v2.1.0 ✅

• implement raising dark mode elevation

v2.2.0

• implement mini variants for the Layout package
• update Grid component for easier usage with 1-3 columns
• remove react-transition-group as a dependency putting this on hold since it's really just for the StrictMode warnings. I think it'll be better to just use the nodeRef API in 4.4.0 instead for now if I still want to target it for this release.

v2.3.0

• Slider component
• form validation helpers and convenience components (this one is iffy since I am terrible at validation and might be better to research existing form packages and update the docs to show how to use them)

v2.4.0

• Date Picker
• Time Picker
• Date+Time Picker

v2.5.0 and beyond

Not sure yet. Most likely better hook implementations and better abstraction of the functionality used within react-md components so that more customization is possible. Maybe look into re-creating the useCSSVariables hook to update themes without SCSS

[mlaursen]

Looks like I was a little bit off with my estimates. Still remaining work as of v2.5.0:

• implement mini variants for the Layout component
• implement Date, Time, and DateTime components
• figure out how I want to update react-transition-group to remove the message in React.StrictMode about findDOMNode usage

[mlaursen]

Closing in favor of #1206 and #1302