dioxus-mirror/docs/guide/src/en/contributing/roadmap.md

Roadmap & Feature-set

This feature set and roadmap can help you decide if what Dioxus can do today works for you.

If a feature that you need doesn't exist or you want to contribute to projects on the roadmap, feel free to get involved by joining the discord.

Generally, here's the status of each platform:

• Web: Dioxus is a great choice for pure web-apps – especially for CRUD/complex apps. However, it does lack the ecosystem of React, so you might be missing a component library or some useful hook.

• SSR: Dioxus is a great choice for pre-rendering, hydration, and rendering HTML on a web endpoint. Be warned – the VirtualDom is not (currently) Send + Sync.

• Desktop: You can build very competent single-window desktop apps right now. However, multi-window apps require support from Dioxus core and are not ready.

• Mobile: Mobile support is very young. You'll be figuring things out as you go and there are not many support crates for peripherals.

• LiveView: LiveView support is very young. You'll be figuring things out as you go. Thankfully, none of it is too hard and any work can be upstreamed into Dioxus.

Features

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Feature	Status	Description
Conditional Rendering	✅	if/then to hide/show component
Map, Iterator	✅	map/filter/reduce to produce rsx!
Keyed Components	✅	advanced diffing with keys
Web	✅	renderer for web browser
Desktop (webview)	✅	renderer for desktop
Shared State (Context)	✅	share state through the tree
Hooks	✅	memory cells in components
SSR	✅	render directly to string
Component Children	✅	cx.children() as a list of nodes
Headless components	✅	components that don't return real elements
Fragments	✅	multiple elements without a real root
Manual Props	✅	Manually pass in props with spread syntax
Controlled Inputs	✅	stateful wrappers around inputs
CSS/Inline Styles	✅	syntax for inline styles/attribute groups
Custom elements	✅	Define new element primitives
Suspense	✅	schedule future render from future/promise
Integrated error handling	✅	Gracefully handle errors with ? syntax
NodeRef	✅	gain direct access to nodes
Re-hydration	✅	Pre-render to HTML to speed up first contentful paint
Jank-Free Rendering	✅	Large diffs are segmented across frames for silky-smooth transitions
Effects	✅	Run effects after a component has been committed to render
Portals	🛠	Render nodes outside of the traditional tree structure
Cooperative Scheduling	🛠	Prioritize important events over non-important events
Server Components	🛠	Hybrid components for SPA and Server
Bundle Splitting	👀	Efficiently and asynchronously load the app
Lazy Components	👀	Dynamically load the new components as the page is loaded
1st class global state	✅	redux/recoil/mobx on top of context
Runs natively	✅	runs as a portable binary w/o a runtime (Node)
Subtree Memoization	✅	skip diffing static element subtrees
High-efficiency templates	✅	rsx! calls are translated to templates on the DOM's side
Compile-time correct	✅	Throw errors on invalid template layouts
Heuristic Engine	✅	track component memory usage to minimize future allocations
Fine-grained reactivity	👀	Skip diffing for fine-grain updates

• ✅ = implemented and working
• 🛠 = actively being worked on
• 👀 = not yet implemented or being worked on

Roadmap

These Features are planned for the future of Dioxus:

Core

• Release of Dioxus Core
• Upgrade documentation to include more theory and be more comprehensive
• Support for HTML-side templates for lightning-fast dom manipulation
• Support for multiple renderers for same virtualdom (subtrees)
• Support for ThreadSafe (Send + Sync)
• Support for Portals

SSR

• SSR Support + Hydration
• Integrated suspense support for SSR

Desktop

• Declarative window management
• Templates for building/bundling
• Access to Canvas/WebGL context natively

Mobile

• Mobile standard library
  • GPS
  • Camera
  • filesystem
  • Biometrics
  • WiFi
  • Bluetooth
  • Notifications
  • Clipboard
• Animations

Bundling (CLI)

• Translation from HTML into RSX
• Dev server
• Live reload
• Translation from JSX into RSX
• Hot module replacement
• Code splitting
• Asset macros
• Css pipeline
• Image pipeline

Essential hooks

• Router
• Global state management
• Resize observer

Work in Progress

Build Tool

We are currently working on our own build tool called Dioxus CLI which will support:

• an interactive TUI
• on-the-fly reconfiguration
• hot CSS reloading
• two-way data binding between browser and source code
• an interpreter for rsx!
• ability to publish to github/netlify/vercel
• bundling for iOS/Desktop/etc

Server Component Support

While not currently fully implemented, the expectation is that LiveView apps can be a hybrid between Wasm and server-rendered where only portions of a page are "live" and the rest of the page is either server-rendered, statically generated, or handled by the host SPA.

Native rendering

We are currently working on a native renderer for Dioxus using WGPU called Blitz. This will allow you to build apps that are rendered natively for iOS, Android, and Desktop.