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Proposal: API - Move from 'style' to Compositional Components

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This came from some discussions with @manuhornung and others around Flutter's model vs our `style` model. IMO, one thing Flutter did really well in their design is their compositional component...

Proposal: Fetch-like API for Revery

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One major gap we have at the moment with Revery is that there isn't a prescribed way to do HTTP/HTTPS requests. This is very important functionality to have! There are...

Performance: Output a performance profile in chrome tracing format

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When `REVERY_DEBUG` is set, we output raw data to stdout about the performance characteristics. However, it'd be more useful to output this in a format that could be consumed by...

Developer Experience: Use Chrome elements panel to interact with render tree

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This is from @jchavarri and @jordwalke 's ideas on the Discord channel. A key value proposition of Electron is that it's really easy to debug - you get a built-in...

Implement 7GUIs benchmarks

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There's a couple project called [7GUIs](https://eugenkiss.github.io/7guis/) which has some basic UI projects to compare and contrast UI frameworks. Implementing these in `revery` would be an interesting exercise, and would help...

Native Integration: Menu API

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Like Electron's [`Menu` API](https://electronjs.org/docs/api/menu), it'd be very useful from Revery to create native application menus. The Menu API from electron is a good starting point, but I wonder if we...

Often, for UI widgets / controls, they are relatively static - and don't require a re-render very frequently. For those cases, it doesn't really make sense for us to re-render...

Documentation: Add documentation for creating a custom component

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We currently support custom components (with hooks even!) - some examples in the code: https://github.com/bryphe/revery/blob/711a90a0b19af2f39dd984cb1570a1231e745365/examples/Bin.re#L50 https://github.com/bryphe/revery/blob/711a90a0b19af2f39dd984cb1570a1231e745365/examples/Bin.re#L6 However, our documentation just says `TODO`. We should put a simple example there and...

Automated Testing: Image Snapshot Tests

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Thinking about #145 - for some of these very visual cases, we have no current test coverage. It's important to be able to make changes _safely_ and _confidently_ - so...

Compile-time asset loading

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This is ported from ideas @jchavarri and @OhadRau mentioned in PR #153 - some really neat ideas around __compile-time asset loading__. (Not my idea so I don't want to take...