Roadmap

Next Minor Version (v1.6.0)

Features

• Renaming a file on upload (currently does not work due to HTML 5 File element being read only)

Enhancements/Fixes

• Fix TypeError: Converting circular structure to JSON (through update of firebase version) - #230

Future Minor Versions (v1.7.0 - v1.*.*)

Note: Subject to change

Breaking Changes

None Yet Planned

Features

• preserveOnLogout config option to preserve certain data on logout (already supported in v2.0.0)
• Population of ordered data (already supported in v2.0.0) - #239
• childAlias to store populate result on another parameter - #126
• waitForPopulate option to allow data to be returned before populated data as in becomes available. As of v1.4.0-rc.2, populate only sets isLoaded to true after all children are loaded, waitForPopulate would make this optional - #121
• Config option for populated items updating when changed - #69
• Improved support for batching of UI updates as the result of a database "array" loading - #212
• Expose whole Firebase instance (warning: Using Firebase instance methods will not dispatch actions or update redux state)
• Nested populates #85)
• Support for universal environments (i.e. no next function) - #199
• Option to clear redux data on firebaseConnect unmount - #55

Enhancements/Fixes

• Fix TypeError: Converting circular structure to JSON (through update of firebase version) - #230

Upcoming Major Version (v2.0.0)

NOTE: The changes are unconfirmed and will most likely change

Progress

• All pre-released changes for v2.0.0 are located on the v2.0.0 branch

Breaking Changes

• Remove usage of Immutable.js and Immutable Maps (no more need for pathToJS(), dataToJS() or any Immutable helpers to load data from redux)
• Firebase is now initialized outside of react-redux-firebase - #173, #131, #107
• reducer split into multiple nested reducers for a few reasons:
  • Follows standard for nesting of reducers using combine reducers).
  • Allows for separately importable reducers (for placing in other parts of redux other than state.firebase)
  • Keeps reducers easier to read, understand, and debug
  • Improved rendering/update performance for react - #84

Features

• Integration for react-native-firebase for using Firebase native modules instead of JS library (allowing for instance to be passed in) - #131
• Population of ordered data - #239
• Support for keeping data on logout - #125
• Online users/presence functionality based on firebase's presence example
• Built in react-native JS (not native modules) support making it no longer necessary to pass ReactNative in config
• Detect Non-HTTP environments (such as with SSR) so that enableRedirectHandling: false is not required in config
• Track online users and sessions by passing presence config option (string or function)
• Support passing Firebase app passed instead of full firebase lib (pass around a smaller object) - #249, #250
• store.firebaseAuthIsReady promise for confirming auth is ready (useful on App boot) - #264

Under Consideration

• Possibility of delayed initialization - #70 (more research needed)
• authRequired or dataLoaded Higher Order Components (or HOC factory) that force data to exist before rendering component (made much easier using recompose)

Long Term Goals

• Optional Built in Role Management
• Multi-level population
• Population rules suggestion/generation
• Routing decorators (most likely to include @authRequired, @dataLoaded and @redirectOnAuth)