Roadmap

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Done

Version 6

• v6.60

  • Added caching HTTP headers

• v6.59

  • ​Fix Watchr once and for all​

• v6.58

  • Dynamic documents are rendered through the generate action

• v6.56

  • Database caching disabled by default

• v6.55

  • Database caching aka Importer Speed Optimisations​

• v6.54

  • Abstracted out notifications into plugin

  • i18n support without native binary

• v6.53

  • Locales can now be merged together

• v6.51

  • Run the local DocPad installation if it exists

• v6.49

  • Cleanup on destroy

• v6.48

  • Version conflict warning

• v6.47

  • Inline elements in styles block

• v6.46

  • ​Importer support​

• v6.45

  • Added docpad update command

• v6.44

  • Virtual document support

• v6.43

  • Added docpad install command

• v6.41

  • Debugging and tracing improvements

• v6.38

  • Init empty directories

• v6.35

  • Plugin priorities

• v6.32

  • Streams based logging

• v6.31

  • Progress bar for generation

• v6.30

  • Abstracting out the core begins

• v6.26

  • Node 0.10 support

• v6.25

  • Persistant database

• v6.24

  • Plugins can now extend the CLI

• v6.23

  • Foreign encoding support

• v6.13

  • Statistics

• v6.8

  • .env file support

• v6.7

  • ​Express.js v3 support

• v6.6

  • Added docpad-debug executable

• v6.4

  • Custom error pages

• v6.3

  • Multiple environment support

• v6.2

  • Environment specific configuration

  • Better Node.js deployments

  • Better extendability

• v6.1

  • ​Element based renderers​

• v6.0

  • Added differential rendering

  • Allow configuration files to hook into events

  • Streamlined and cleaned

  • Extensible CLI

Version 5

• v5.2

  • Everything is now parsed into the in-memory database

  • Added docpad.cson configuration

  • Added custom collections via configuration support

• v5.1

  • Added support for binary files

• v5.0

  • Plugins are now handled via NPM

  • Uses Backbone for Models and Collections

Version 4

• v4.1

  • Added skeleton exchange

• v4.0

  • Added support for partials

Version 3

• v3.2

  • You can now select which skeleton on creation of a new project

  • Unit Tests

  • Modular API for rendering single files

  • Modular API for rendering single content blocks

  • Hidden files are now ignored in watchr

• v3.1

  • Added an interactive CLI

• v3.0

  • New event system, which supports blocking and queuing of events

Version 2

Version 2 focused on improving the possibilities of the plugin infrastructure as well as adding support for windows and cloud based services.

• v2.3

  • Cloud Support

• v2.2

  • Windows Support

• v2.1

  • Dynamic Documents

    • These are rendered per request, and have access to the Express.js request object

    • They enable things like form handling, search, real-time updating data, etc.

• v2.0

  • Plugin's have their own package.json

    • This specifies the plugin's dependencies

    • When the plugin is used, DocPad will do a cd $pluginDir; npm install

  • Plugins and DocPad configurable through project's package.json

  • Plugins and DocPad configurable through project's docpad.coffee

  • Front-End Administration Plugin

    • Adds in some client-side JavaScript

    • Utilises contentEditable with semantic properties to update

  • REST Plugin

    • Support read and write of files

    • Requires some sort of authentication method... to be decided

Version 1

Version 1 focused on improving the scalability, stability, and ease-of-use of DocPad. Bringing it to a vastly superior alternative to other static site generators.

Version 0

Version 0 focused on fixing the content creation and website development pain.