Roadmap

Intent, not dated commitments.

1.0 — released

Everything documented on this site: the worker-backed canvas pipeline, tidy layout with four orientations and RTL, LOD tiers, the pooled overlay, the staged expand/collapse transition with its camera anchor, minimap, SVG/PNG export, a full keyboard tree, per-node subtree counts, go-to-node with route highlighting, and the Vue and React bindings.

npm install @klad/core    # or @klad/vue, @klad/react

Published from CI on a GitHub Release, so every tarball carries a provenance attestation tying it to the commit and the workflow that built it.

1.1 — Drag-and-drop reparenting

Drag a node onto a new parent: a ghost while dragging, the drop target highlighted, a drop that would create a cycle rejected and reported rather than applied, and an incremental relayout of only the dirty subtree.

Deferred out of 1.0 deliberately. The interaction is a project in its own right and 1.0 is otherwise complete; holding the release for it would have served nobody.

1.2 — Cross-links

Edges that are not tree edges: dotted-line reporting, matrix relationships, an arbitrary link between any two nodes. Touches routing, the renderer and the export path.

1.3 — Alternative layouts

More than one way to arrange the same tree — arrangements that switch by subtree shape, compact forms for deep narrow chains.

1.4 — Animated links, custom edges

Edge styling as a first-class concern: caller-supplied edge shapes, motion along a link.

1.5 — Child pagination

A node with hundreds of direct children shows the first few and a "more" control, with search to bring specific children into the scene. Keeps very wide fan-outs readable, and keeps them out of the layout.

1.6 — Nested sets

lft/rgt values exposed and rendered, and binary-tree presentation.