Roadmap

This is a high-level description for library changes and planned work. For detailed list of changes see Changelog.

Future

Potential features

• "Snaplines" canvas widget to align elements in respect to each other
• Entity/relation info panel
• Background fetching status widget for links
• "Highlighter" canvas widget to highlight connected elements on selection or hover
• Hierarchical layout algorithm (e.g. Eclipse ELK)
• In/out ports on elements
• Separate package for a scalable/pannable canvas

Versions

v0.35 (Unreleased)

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• Make build-in components more accessible, including keyboard navigation for ClassTree, InstancesSearch, etc

0.34 (2025-03-25)

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• Preparations to extract scalable/pannable canvas into a separate package
• Proper graph manipulation on touchscreen devices
• Customize resource anchors and resolve asset URLs
• Customize default dialog sizes for dialogs and persist user-changed sizes
• Extend built-in form inputs: select and file inputs
• Extract build-in form support into a separate entry point

v0.33 (2025-03-16)

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• Align basic metadata for editing an entity or relation properties with SHACL
• Maintenance and upkeep for the library: fixes and non-breaking API improvements

v0.32 (2026-03-10)

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• Maintenance and upkeep for the library: fixes and non-breaking API improvements

v0.31 (2025-11-15)

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• Simplify canvas widgets placement at one or multiple layers with CanvasPlaceAt component
• Custom JSON-serializable cell types derived from Element or Link
• Diagram-only annotation elements and links
• User-resizable elements
• Customize link template separately for each link instead of only by the link type IRI
• Keyboard hotkeys for LinkAction components
• Configurable DropOnCanvas to customize whether a drop operation is allowed and what to place on the canvas

v0.30 (2025-06-15)

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• Compatibility with React v19
• Support relation properties editing
• Gradual inputs customization for the built-in properties editor
• Additional decorations for canvas elements
• Customizable keyboard hotkeys for various canvas actions

v0.29 (2025-03-24)

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• Round (elliptical-shaped) elements
• Smooth-curved links (via cubic Bézier curves)
• Improve keyboard focus handling (e.g. pressing Delete only performs when the canvas is focused)
• Extract core utilities into @reactodia/hashmap and @reactodia/worker-proxy packages

v0.28 (2025-02-26)

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• I18n and localization support
• Basic theming support (dark mode, canvas background style, design system elements)
• Add, remove or modify simple literal property values in the "Edit entity" dialog

v0.27 (2024-12-05)

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• Search-centric default workspace layout via UnifiedSearch
• Improve default look for the overlay dialogs
• Ability to dock canvas viewport widgets to any side/corner without style overrides
• Improve MetadataProvider and ValidationProvider contracts for the graph authoring

v0.26 (2024-11-17)

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• Reference API documentation for all exported components and services
• Incremental links fetching from DataProvider only for added elements
• Request chunking in SparqlDataProvider to avoid large queries
• Link caching in IndexedDbCachedProvider to perfectly mirror sub-graphs from another data provider

v0.25 (2024-08-31)

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• Entity and relation grouping on canvas
• Allow to restrict fetched labels and property values by specified languages in SparqlDataProvider
• Move element type and property observers into hooks
• Keep failed fetch operation reason always available for display even after re-renders
• Foreground task system for canvas (e.g. computing layout in worker)

v0.24 (2024-03-27)

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• Track and display fetching state for the graph data
• Support React component lifecycle for Link templates
• Compute graph layout using web workers
• Use React hooks to access workspace and canvas context
• Support React 18 StrictMode workspace loading

v0.23 (2023-12-11)

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• Support customizable Toolbar widget with its actions decomposed into separate components
• Add Selection canvas widget with rectangular element selection
• Make Halo, HaloLink and Selection widgets customizable via action components
• Multi-navigation when multiple elements are selected
• Customizable stroke and fill styles in Navigator and improve default colors
• Improved accessibility attribute placement

v0.22 (2023-11-24)

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• Support resources represented by blank nodes in RdfDataProvider
• Native scroll and pan in PaperArea using mouse wheel or touch input
• Improved touch input: native pan scroll and custom pinch zoom
• Improve default toolbar UI with the dropdown menu
• Optimize canvas rendering, reducing unnecessary React updates and DOM reflows

v0.21 (2023-11-21)

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• Minor release with fixes

v0.20 (2023-11-16)

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• Forked from Ontodia project, change branding and CSS class prefixes
• Customizable workspace structure via separate components for overall layout, canvas and its widgets
• Use in-memory CommandHistory implementation by default
• Bundle subset of Codicons for icons instead of Font Awesome
• Major technical upgrades (compiler, supported React version, RDF/JS-compatible terms)