From ae52600ec7ad04c81c5ad5e1115b16e0a8743001 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Long Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 02:01:29 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] contributing --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index a2cda16..2084494 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -27,6 +27,18 @@ Here are some initial guidelines for how contributions will be treated: The code needs a lot of improvements. When it was just me (@jlongster) I would often find myself halfway through an improvement overall, but always had to put it aside to work on something else. This shows in the code; there's a lot of things that I wanted to improve but was never able to complete. These are list of projects on the top of my mind that I would love to see progress on. +### A mobile web app + +One of the most pressing needs is a mobile app based on the web app. This could mean making the web app responsive, or a separate app that does a few basic things. + +We are deprecating the native iOS/Android apps because we don't have bandwidth to support development and distribution of them (it's complicating submitting them to the app stores, etc). + +Ideally you'd be able to enter transactions on mobile. + +### Transitioning to TypeScript + +This is something I should have done a long time ago. I'd love any help setting up infrastructure for TypeScript and starting to transitioning code to it, particularly the backend. + ### Rewriting the transaction table The transaction table is a very complex component because of all the interactions. The original goal was to embrace inline editing fully and never pull the user out into something like a modal or a drawer. I like how this worked out for some workflows, but it made other workflows plain awkward. @@ -51,7 +63,7 @@ We should switch to [swc](https://swc.rs). That would also have another benefit: One of my mistakes with Actual was rebuilding everything from scratch, even the design system. While I was able to make it look good for the current version of Actual, it makes it a lot of work to build new designs. We should choose a 3rd party library and start using it in Actual. It would make it way faster to build new designs. -There aren't many good 3rd party library unfortunately. API, accessibility, and general thoughtful-ness are important. The two that come to my mind are [Radix](https://www.radix-ui.com) and [react-aria](https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-aria/). I'm leaning towards react-aria. +There aren't many good 3rd party library unfortunately. API, accessibility, and general thoughtful-ness are important. The two that come to my mind are [Radix](https://www.radix-ui.com) and [react-aria](https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-aria/)1. I'm leaning towards react-aria. I'm open to other things, but we really need something to take the weight off of building UI.