Future roadmap: Internationalization, TypeScript, responsive design and performance!

[retrixe]

So, our website is on its way to acing Lighthouse, and we want to make this site, while not popular, a baseline for other applications. So I've decided to release our future plans for RSG-Group/website.

• 1. Make cards the same size on all platforms.
• 2. Internationalization makes life good.
• 3. Performance and optimization is needed.
• 4. Consider hosting in AWS or Google Cloud Platform.
• 5. Slack icon 😶
• 6. Switch to ES Modules on the server, and make hcr-dev useful.
• 7. Material Design compliance. Right now, it's a mess.
• 8. Google Analytics support.

Scrapped ideas:

• Switch to Koa, deprecated because we don't need it. Micro is quite powerful enough.
• TypeScript, Flow works just fine right now. Why add more build steps, right now we have none (we removed Flow now lol)
• Switch to homemade CSS, Material-UI is light and fine.
• Merge my personal blog with this.. why did I suggest this lol

The target for these technologies is to release by the November 2017 release, though they are well capable of arriving with the October 2017 Release (if I get time).

[radi-cho]

What about Google Analytics?

[retrixe]

Google Analytics.. well.. really. It can be put up for debate.. but well..

[retrixe]

Yes, October 2017 Release brings many solutions to this.
Want to fix some responsiveness issues though.

[retrixe]

Deployed November 2017 release. December 2017 release will finish this off.

[retrixe]

Performance and optimization is being worked on. Much less dependencies, added some suggestions.

[retrixe]

Currently, we are going to launch one last release from this outdated codebase, by January end optimistically. After this, we are proceeding with a complete rewrite from scratch, with only Next.js and React, or with a potential Vue.js version.

Planned features:
Open Graph Protocol support, less progressive web app and more performance. Remove custom server and Express and update dependencies. Fixed styles (ref broken test pilot version in master) and Material UI 1.0 along with updated React and Next.js versions.