H1 2016

These reflect the current plans of Relay Team as of the 14 March 2016 Sync. For the latest information as plans evolve, see the Meeting Notes.

Themes

• Mobile First: support React Native product teams at Facebook.
• Performance
• Simplicity with predictable degrees of correctness.
  • Balancing product sophistication vs speed of iteration on Relay core.
• Provide low-level primitives so that product teams and OSS users can build tooling in user space (as they can with React).
• Reduce support costs:
  • Identify and address common types of issues.
  • Simplify the API and improve documentation to help developers understand the framework better.

Current Projects

• Improve mutations.
• Persisted queries.
• RelayConnection API.
• Unified response handling (GraphMode).
• Simpler/faster core (#559, also ideas in Potential Projects).

Potential Projects

• Split Relay core and react-relay; core provides basic primitives to build tools in userspace. (#559)
• Investigate "persisted"/native cache readers (read from cache in native code).
• Reduce memory usage (improve garbage collection or rethink).
• Potential improved integration with React.
• Support TTL or some other cache expiration policy.
• Local schema and/or Redux integration.
• ...and other issues tagged as enhancements.