Roadmap

This is a living document that outlines the team's high-level priorities for 2019. The purpose of this document is to let the community know where xterm.js is going and to help the team focus on the priorities.

Improving the API

• Finalize and ship the new Addons API https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/issues/1128
• New APIs
  • Renderer (for WebGL renderer addon)
  • Buffer access (for search addon)
  • Unicode provider (for unicode addons)

Building the fastest JS terminal

• Finishing off improvements to the buffer https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/issues/1920
• Introduce a WebGL renderer addon https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/pull/1790

Providing a rich feature set

• Add the ability to decorate ranges of text https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/issues/1852
• Provide different unicode definitions as addons https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/issues/1709
• Support true color https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/issues/484

Lowering the maintenance burden

• Automate the release process https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/issues/1921
• Improve code separation with new layering model https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/issues/1507
• Enable TypeScript's strictNullCheck feature across the core codebase https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/issues/1319