Roadmap
Planned direction for ForgeUI
Roadmap
ForgeUI is evolving as a system, not as a checklist of components to ship and forget.
The roadmap reflects how real products grow: slowly, unevenly, and with changing constraints.
Priorities are shaped by actual usage, not by trends or release pressure.
This roadmap describes direction, not promises. Scope and timelines may shift as the system matures.
Short-term focus
Strengthening the foundation
In the short term, ForgeUI focuses on improving the adoption experience.
This includes:
- expanding layout patterns that appear repeatedly in real products
- improving documentation depth and clarity
- refining existing components based on early usage feedback
The goal is to reduce friction for teams evaluating ForgeUI for the first time.
Documentation quality and clarity
Documentation improvements are treated as first-class work.
This means:
- clearer examples for common layouts
- explicit migration notes and integration guidance
- more context around design decisions and constraints
Each improvement follows a simple loop:
- identify recurring questions from early adopters
- clarify intent with concrete examples
- validate changes against realistic usage scenarios
Medium-term focus
Scaling composition patterns
Medium-term work concentrates on patterns that help teams scale together.
This includes:
- more advanced composition examples
- patterns for coordinating layout, state, and interaction
- guidance for extracting shared primitives safely
The focus is less on adding new components and more on showing how existing ones can be combined effectively.
Complex layouts and interactions
As products grow, layouts become denser and interactions more nuanced.
Medium-term efforts will include:
- advanced dashboard layouts
- interaction patterns that balance clarity and performance
- examples that demonstrate composition at scale
These patterns will emphasize predictability and maintainability over visual novelty.
What is intentionally not planned
Avoiding component sprawl
ForgeUI intentionally avoids:
- dozens of near-identical components
- minor visual variants packaged as separate APIs
- components whose primary value is appearance rather than structure
Component sprawl increases maintenance cost and erodes system clarity over time.
No theme packs or visual presets
ForgeUI will not ship:
- pre-built theme packs
- opinionated color systems
- visual presets detached from structure
Visual decisions are expected to live at the application level, not inside the component system.
Visual customization without structural intent often leads to brittle systems.
How roadmap decisions are made
Roadmap decisions are driven by:
- real product constraints
- feedback from teams using ForgeUI in production
- long-term maintenance considerations
When trade-offs arise, ForgeUI favors:
- smaller APIs over flexible-but-unstable ones
- clarity over convenience
- composability over configuration
If a feature introduces significant long-term complexity without clear systemic value, it is intentionally deferred or rejected.
Looking ahead
ForgeUI is not optimized for rapid expansion.
It is optimized for longevity.
The roadmap will continue to evolve, but the underlying principles remain consistent:
- build less, but build it well
- document intent, not just usage
- favor systems that age gracefully
ForgeUI grows when it earns the right to grow.