Overall project goals

• improve developer productivity and happiness in building a web app
• aggregate the best-in-class offerings to front-end devs
• help developers manage application complexity
• provide strong defaults, but be flexible enough for users to extend for custom project needs

Roadmap targets

• provide first-class hooks for tools like WebStorm, Brackets, Sublime
• support for authoring in ES6 for Traceur
• better support for mobile web apps
  • forked view layer, remote debugging á la Adobe Inspect/Shadow (also see #167) or Remote Preview, DevTools UI for iOS 6
• Adobe Shadow-like follow behavior for all desktop/mobile via browserstack/browserling cloud browsers
• detect memory leak patterns (via Esprima?)
• integration with backends (Express, PHP) during iteration
• better unit test execution
  • only run affected tests, test in all browsers, test in cloud browsers
  • UI testing á la casper.js
  • integration with thrill for testing for all browsers simultaneously
• solve client side storage, offline and sync
  • rich synchronization (both realtime- and offline-collaboration)
  • pushState incl server
• web components via package management
• revolution in code reuse via package management :) (fix js ecosystem fragmentation)
• UI widgets (Kendo, ClosureLib, Bootstrap, web components?)
• Auth (Google Connect) and Payment (Stripe or Google Payment)

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