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Roadmap

The detailed roadmap is maintained in our issue planning and tracking system, and you can find that here: https://github.com/craftercms/craftercms/milestones

At a high-level, we’re pursuing the objectives listed below in order:

• Update all documentation to flow better and address use-cases more directly
• New dashboard system and new dashboards
• Content Modeling Tool: Modernize the content modeling tools
• Form Engine: Rewrite the form engine
• Improve Experience Builder (XB) support for SPA (React, Vue, Angular)
• Add Recycle Bin to the authoring system

Recently Completed

• Crafter Studio features

  • New Sidebar navigator

  • Page Builder: Improved in-context editing including

    • In-place editing
    • Out of the box and marketplace components
    • Improved drag and drop mechanics

  • Time-travel mechanics to preview sites across time

• Crafter Studio Marketplace: Pull in authoring extensions for your site from the marketplace
• Engine Plugin Marketplace: Pull in widgets for your app from the marketplace

• Enhanced Preview Proxy to connect to any remote server as the preview server

  • This allows easier authoring of sites built with other programming languages and technologies

• Managed Blob Stores

  • Manage external blob stores (S3) assets as if they’re CrafterCMS assets with full workflow and multi-environment support

• GraphQL

  • Query content in Engine via GraphQL
  • GraphQL extensions: You can now change the GraphQL response and add in data from other sources with a small groovy script. GraphQL now pulls back data from CrafterCMS or other sources, and you can override whatever you like.

• Elasticsearch

  • Becomes the default search engine (Solr is no longer supported as of CrafterCMS v4.0)

• Serverless CrafterCMS

  • Full support for Kubernetes clustering vanilla or AWS EKS
  • Crafter Engine backed by AWS S3 (or compatible services)
  • CrafterCMS provided Docker images
  • Search is provided by Elasticsearch and is scaled separately

• SPA Support I

  • New JS library: basic JS all the way to Redux: https://www.npmjs.com/settings/craftercms/packages example application: https://github.com/craftercms/video-center-blueprint
  • Node JS integration
  • React JS integration and seamless development
  • Angular integration and seamless development

• SPA Support II

  • ICE (In-Context Editing) Pencils for React JS and Angular
  • Drag and Drop for React, Angular, and Vue
  • Example: https://github.com/craftercms/wordify-blueprint

• Crafter Studio features

  • Crafter Studio UI enhancements using React components that weave in
  • Crafter Studio Marketplace for blueprints and new blueprints
  • Advanced clustering for the authoring environment
  • New search backend based on Elasticsearch for better search in authoring

  • Advanced Git workflow mechanics

    • Specify a branch per site
    • Add remote repositories and pull/push from the GUI

  • Added support for a staging waypoint (an environment where you can stage your project before pushing it to production)
  • S3 connector for uploading large media assets
  • Box connector for uploading/linking to Box assets
  • WebDAV connector for uploading/linking to WebDAV assets
  • AWS Media Services integration for video processing (upload, transcode, stream ABR video)

• Crafter Engine

  • URL Rewrite a la Apache mod_rewrite using http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/ (this is different from Crafter’s URL Transformation Engine)