Merge pull request #927 from Textualize/roadmap

Roadmap

docs/getting_started.md

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 ```
 
 See [devtools](guide/devtools.md) for more about the `textual` command.
+
+## Need help?
+
+See the [help](./help.md) page for how to get help with Textual, or to report bugs.

docs/help.md

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+---
+hide:
+  - navigation
+---
+
+# Help
+
+Here's where to go if you need help with Textual.
+
+## Bugs and feature requests
+
+Report bugs via GitHub on the Textual [issues](https://github.com/Textualize/textual/issues) page. You can also post feature requests via GitHub issues, but see the [roadmap](./roadmap.md) first.
+
+## Forum
+
+Visit the [Textual forum](https://community.textualize.io/) for Textual (and Rich) discussions.
+
+## Discord Server
+
+For more realtime feedback or chat, join our discord server to connect with the [Textual community](https://discord.gg/Enf6Z3qhVr).

docs/roadmap.md

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+# Roadmap
+
+We ([textualize.io](https://www.textualize.io/)) are actively building and maintaining Textual. 
+
+We have many new features in the pipeline. This page will keep track of that work.
+
+## Features
+
+High-level features we plan on implementing.
+
+- [ ] Command interface
+    * [ ] Command menu
+    * [ ] Fuzzy search
+- [ ] Configuration (.toml based extensible configuration format)
+- [x] Devtools
+    * [ ] Browser-inspired devtools interface with integrated DOM view, log, and REPL
+- [ ] Reactive state
+- [x] Themes 
+    * [ ] Customize via config 
+    * [ ] Builtin theme editor
+
+## Widgets
+
+Widgets are key to making user friendly interfaces. The builtin widgets should cover many common (and some uncommon) use-cases. The following is a list of the widgets we have built or are planning to build.
+
+- [x] Buttons
+    * [x] Error / warning variants
+- [ ] Color picker
+- [x] Checkbox
+- [ ] Content switcher
+- [x] DataTable
+    * [x] Cell select
+    * [ ] Row / Column select
+    * [ ] API to update cells / rows 
+    * [ ] Lazy loading API
+- [ ] Date picker
+- [ ] Drop-down menus
+- [ ] Form Widget
+    * [ ] Serialization / Deserialization
+    * [ ] Export to `attrs` objects
+    * [ ] Export to `PyDantic` objects
+- [ ] Image support
+  - [ ] Half block
+  - [ ] Braile
+  - [ ] Sixels, and other image extensions
+- [x] Input
+    * [ ] Validation
+    * [ ] Error / warning states
+    * [ ] Template types: IP address, physical units (weight, volume), currency, credit card etc
+- [ ] Markdown viewer (more dynamic than Rich markdown, with scrollable code areas / collapseable sections)
+- [ ] Plots
+  - [ ] bar chart
+  - [ ] line chart
+  - [ ] Candlestick chars
+- [ ] Progress bars
+    * [ ] Style variants (solid, thin etc)
+- [ ] Radio boxes
+- [ ] Sparklines
+- [ ] Tabs
+- [ ] TextArea (multi-line input)
+    * [ ] Basic controls
+    * [ ] Syntax highlighting
+    * [ ] Indentation guides
+    * [ ] Smart features for various languages

mkdocs.yml

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 nav:
   - Introduction:
     - "index.md"
-    - "getting_started.md"
+    - "getting_started.md"  
   - "tutorial.md"
   - Guide:
     - "guide/index.md"
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ nav:
     - "guide/widgets.md"
     - "guide/animation.md"
     - "guide/screens.md"
+  - "roadmap.md"
   - How to:
     - "how-to/index.md"
     - "how-to/animation.md"
@@ -116,6 +117,8 @@ nav:
     - "reference/static.md"
     - "reference/timer.md"
     - "reference/widget.md"
+  - "help.md"
+
 
 
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