At the end of 2014, we looked ahead to determine where to focus SitePen’s open source efforts in the coming year. After our successful contributions to dgrid and the new dstore package, it became increasingly clear that contributing to the future of Dojo was where our team would have the biggest impact and the most fun. So, we’re happy to announce that we are and will be actively contributing to the planning and development of Dojo 2!
SitePen In Action
So far, We have contributed our knowledge and expertise in developing enterprise web applications to what Dojo 2 needs to be; a modular, collection of packages that fit together to deliver high-performance web applications that are well-designed, highly performant and maintainable.
We’ve also poured our hearts (and design resources) into the overhaul of the Dojo Website, which was in dire need of a modern design and cleaner information architecture.
So Much Excitement!
A few of the reasons we’re looking forward to contributing to Dojo 2:
- the final result will be a tight collection of packages that feel familiar to Dojo developers while leveraging the capabilities and improvements of the modern web platform.
- It’s going to be authored in TypeScript! As a superset of JavaScript, TypeScript makes it simpler to support many of the recent ES2015 improvements and provide support for types and interfaces.
- Helping to reshape and grow the Dojo community!
Don’t delay! Check out the new Dojo Web site, read the Dojo 2 vision and roadmap and when you’re spun up like us, hit the contribute button and tell us that you want to be part of the future of Dojo!