TypeFetched/ROADMAP.md
Casey Collier a833e5334a Add realistic roadmap for TypedFetch future development
- Version 0.3.0: Testing utilities and better debugging
- Version 0.4.0: Advanced type inference and API documentation
- Version 0.5.0: Performance improvements and observability
- Version 0.6.0: WebSocket and advanced streaming support
- Version 1.0.0: Enterprise features and production stability

Focus on developer experience, type safety, and maintaining zero dependencies
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TypedFetch Roadmap

Philosophy

TypedFetch aims to be the most developer-friendly HTTP client for TypeScript. Every feature should reduce complexity, improve type safety, or make common patterns easier.

Version 0.3.0 - Developer Experience (Q1 2025)

Mock & Testing Utilities

  • Built-in request mocking for tests
  • Record/replay functionality for API responses
  • Type-safe mock generation from OpenAPI specs
  • Test helpers for common scenarios

Better Error Context

  • Stack trace preservation across async boundaries
  • Request/response snapshots in errors
  • Automatic retry history in error objects
  • Network timing breakdowns

Developer Tools Integration

  • Browser DevTools extension
  • VS Code extension for request building
  • Request collection management (like Postman, but in your IDE)
  • Live request debugging

Version 0.4.0 - Type System Power (Q2 2025)

Advanced Type Inference

  • OpenAPI schema import for automatic typing
  • GraphQL query type inference
  • JSON Schema validation at compile time
  • Type-safe URL building with template literals

API Documentation Generation

  • Generate TypeScript types from live APIs
  • Automatic API documentation from usage
  • Type-safe API versioning support

Version 0.5.0 - Performance & Resilience (Q2 2025)

Connection Management

  • HTTP/2 connection pooling
  • Smart connection reuse
  • Automatic protocol negotiation
  • Connection health monitoring

Advanced Caching

  • Predictive prefetching
  • Stale-while-revalidate support
  • Partial response caching
  • Cache warming strategies

Observability

  • OpenTelemetry integration
  • Performance metrics collection
  • Request tracing support
  • Custom metric collectors

Version 0.6.0 - Real-time & Streaming (Q3 2025)

WebSocket Support

  • Type-safe WebSocket client
  • Automatic reconnection
  • Message queuing during disconnects
  • Binary protocol support

Advanced Streaming

  • Stream transformers library
  • Backpressure handling
  • Stream composition utilities
  • Progress events for all operations

Version 1.0.0 - Production Ready (Q4 2025)

Security Enhancements

  • Certificate pinning
  • Request signing (AWS, OAuth)
  • Automatic security header management
  • Content Security Policy helpers

Enterprise Features

  • Proxy auto-configuration
  • NTLM/Kerberos authentication
  • Client certificate support
  • Audit logging

Stability

  • 100% test coverage
  • Performance regression suite
  • Backward compatibility guarantees
  • Long-term support plan

Future Considerations

Protocol Support

  • HTTP/3 (QUIC) when browser support matures
  • gRPC-Web integration
  • WebTransport for bidirectional streaming

Framework Integration

  • First-class React Server Components support
  • Nuxt module
  • SvelteKit adapter
  • Remix utils

Standards Alignment

  • Fetch API parity
  • Service Worker integration
  • Web Streams API throughout
  • Import maps support

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Priority areas:

  1. Testing infrastructure improvements
  2. Documentation and examples
  3. Framework-specific adapters
  4. Performance optimizations

Principles for New Features

Before adding any feature, ask:

  1. Does it make the 80% use case easier?
  2. Can it be tree-shaken if not used?
  3. Does it maintain our <15KB core bundle size?
  4. Is it possible to implement without dependencies?
  5. Does it improve developer experience?

Features we'll likely reject:

  • Anything that adds required dependencies
  • Features that complicate basic usage
  • Protocol-specific additions that few developers need
  • Anything that breaks backward compatibility