textual/docs/roadmap.md

Roadmap

We (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)
• Devtools
  • Browser-inspired devtools interface with integrated DOM view, log, and REPL
• Reactive state
• 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.

• Buttons
  • Error / warning variants
• Color picker
• Checkbox
• Content switcher
• DataTable
  • 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
• 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