Framework

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• Upgrade codebase to leverage TypeScript 3.0
• Dragon: New VDOM engine
  • Better VDOM debugging
  • Enhanced VDOM scheduler
  • meta mechanism api changes
  • Support lazy loading widgets directly with w()
  • Explore a new combined v() and w() wrapper
• Consolidate existing dojo/framework/core modules
• New dojo platform for polyfills and ponyfills
• Decorator to implicitly call invalidate for a widget on setting a property
• Functional approach to defining a routing outlet
• Widget that provides a prompt before a route transition to prevent a user navagating away
• ActiveLink in Routing
• Local storage middleware for Stores
• StoreProvider component to inject the store into an application

CLI

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• Zero configuration, route-based code splitting.
• Zero configuration code splitting based on build time rendering heuristics
• Support static resources in build commands.
• Externals support for build app command.
• Theme build command
• New widget library target for cli-build-widget
• Improvements to cli-create-widget
• .dojorc validation
• Ability to save arguments from cli to .dojorc
• Update postcss-cssnext to postcss-preset-env, as part of this for non-legacy builds do not compile CSS variables

Widgets and Themes

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• Leverage @dojo/scripts for widgets and themes
• Process themes through PostCSS/css-modules for distributable (like widgets) and continue to deliver the source CSS
• Revisit api consistency and document approaches for widgets
• Input Chip widget
• Date picker widget
• Snackbar widget
• Menu widget
• Card widget

Interoperability

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• dgrid wrapper

Community

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• Resolve outstanding CodeSandbox issues with typings and using themes

Upgrade Path

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• Continue to evolve the upgrade command for migration of future major version updates.