Chassis Roadmap

Chassis will have three major phases; the creation of a CSS Framework, the implementation of a UI toolkit, and encouraging adoption by helping make Chassis usable across a wide range of projects.

Phase One: CSS Framework (finished early Summer 2015)

The first version of Chassis shall be a CSS Framework, which includes just the "bare bones." Features to be included with this initial release included typography, table styling, form elements, buttons, helper classes, and a grid system.

It should also be noted that jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile will start adopting Chassis at the end of this phase by removing the "CSS framework" part of their codebase.

Phase Two: UI Toolkit (to be worked on throughout Summer 2015)

The second phase of this project will be the implementation of UI components and widgets common to jQuery Mobile and jQuery UI. While many of these components often require JavaScript to work as expected, JavaScript will not be included with a Chassis build, leaving the implementation of these CSS components up to the needs that best serve the project.

Phase Three: Adoption

In order to make Chassis usable for projects that aren't just based on jQuery Foundation frameworks, we'll work with other developers to make adoption easier. This includes writing tools to make Chassis usable with Ember, Angular, and other JavaScript plugins and frameworks, creating themes for major Content Management Systems, and creating build tools that help make it easy to adapt Chassis to different development scenarios.