V5 roadmap

[nikhil-varma]

Let's discuss and plan out the features/details for v5 here

[ChrisShallcross]

I've had a feature request from a user: Is it possible to use exponential notation when adding large numbers? For example, the user could enter 1e9 and have it "expand" to 1,000,000,000. I've looked into this and I can't find an easy way to do this. Is it possible? Is it a useful feature to add?

[nikhil-varma]

Thanks for the feature request. We will look into it on it's feasibility and if possible may be consider exposing an API in the newer version

[nikhil-varma]

Initial milestones:

• Migrate from Flow to TS
• List down all features/functions in v4

Second milestone:

• Decide a strategy to make it headless
• If not headless, break up the functionality into importable chunks
• Implementation V5
• Create a migration strategy

Third milestone

• Test case management/migration from v4 to v5

Fourth milestone

• Create proper documentation site
• Clear up v4 issues

[nikhil-varma]

Existing features

• Formatting
  • Numeral (Currency etc...)
  • Pattern (With mask characters)
  • Custom Formatting
  • Masking (associated with formatting eg: '12--_ '_ )
  • Remove Formatting
  • Grouping styles
  • Empty Formatting
  • Separators
    • Provide this info to Cursor Engine & Boundary Logic (Need to be researched)
    • Thousands
    • Decimals
  • Leading Zeros
  • Decimal Scale customisations
    • Fixed
    • Custom scale limit
• Cursor Engine
• Cursor Boundary
  • Decouple with formatting logic
  • Navigation through Arrow, limit cursor position depending on formatting
• Base
  • Input element customisation for all types
  • Custom Numerals
  • renderText
  • isAllowed
  • onValueChange
  • getInputRef

Research/Unknown issues

• Pros & Cons of using Hooks vs Class
• Handling decimals for finding boundaries (Look for allowedDecimalSeparator)
• Handling Negations

Aim

• API Simplification
• Easy use-case handling by Devs (cases apart from what library supports natively)
• Cursor Engine (Platform dependent. Might need support for multiple platforms like RN, Vue, Angular etc.. )

[c0d3rm0n]

Do you plan to update this package to support React v19?