# DoneJS Community Survey—April 2018

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**Created:** [April 19, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-community-survey-april-2018/865 "2018-04-19T18:38:23Z")\
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The core team will walk through the proposals for what we should focus on next. The proposals will be posted here before the livestream.

Note: the stream time is subject to change.

Since our [last survey](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-contributors-meeting-2018-03-16-survey-4-results/822), we’ve shipped:

- [Improved error messages and handling](https://github.com/donejs/donejs/issues/1073)
- [Make CanJS Tree-Shakable](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/4013)

Proposals we’re currently working on:

- [Create DevTools for CanJS](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/3861)
- [Make it easier to configure and understand can-set](https://github.com/canjs/can-set/issues/54)
- [Minimize bundle size with tree-shaking](https://github.com/stealjs/rfcs/issues/8)
- [Improve routing to components](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/4030)

Proposals we still intend to tackle:

- [Add a Routing Guide](https://github.com/canjs/can-route/issues/122)
- [Add a Testing Guide for CanJS](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/3862)

**New proposals for this survey:**

- [Easy state management for React with can-observe](https://github.com/bitovi/postact/blob/master/README.md#postact---easy-state-management-for-react) ([3:23](https://youtu.be/coSEECcyi00?t=3m23s), follow-up discussion at [40:17](https://youtu.be/coSEECcyi00?t=40m17s))
- [Improve the content of the CanJS documentation](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/4116) ([8:49](https://youtu.be/coSEECcyi00?t=8m49s))
- [Improve CanJS.com’s usability](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/4117) ([10:57](https://youtu.be/coSEECcyi00?t=10m57s))
- [Make it possible to support IE11](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/4115) ([13:19](https://youtu.be/coSEECcyi00?t=13m19s))
- [Support object literals, shorthand assignment, spread and rest-ish operators](https://github.com/canjs/can-stache/issues/505) ([15:48](https://youtu.be/coSEECcyi00?t=15m48s))

**Proposals in this survey that have been in previous surveys:**

- [Support JSX template syntax](https://github.com/canjs/can-jsx/blob/master/README.md#can-jsx) ([18:19](https://youtu.be/coSEECcyi00?t=18m19s), follow-up discussion at [40:17](https://youtu.be/coSEECcyi00?t=40m17s))
- [Quick prototype scaffolding for observables](https://github.com/donejs/donejs/issues/1050) ([21:08](https://youtu.be/coSEECcyi00?t=21m08s))
- [Add a “SSR Tips and Tricks” guide](https://github.com/donejs/donejs/issues/1049) ([29:46](https://youtu.be/coSEECcyi00?t=29m46s))
- [Add a Data Guide](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/4014) ([32:34](https://youtu.be/coSEECcyi00?t=32m34s))
- [Add event modifiers to stache](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/3865) ([33:40](https://youtu.be/coSEECcyi00?t=33m40s))
- [Make CanJS compatible with how webpack strips out dev code](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/4011) ([34:36](https://youtu.be/coSEECcyi00?t=34m36s))
- [Release StealJS 2.0](https://github.com/stealjs/steal/issues/1250) ([37:01](https://youtu.be/coSEECcyi00?t=37m01s))
- [Add docs for customizing the generator templates](https://github.com/donejs/generator-donejs/issues/140) ([38:36](https://youtu.be/coSEECcyi00?t=38m36s))

Things we’re considering for future surveys:

- Component-based (declarative) routing
- [Ideas to improve how to architecture applications with CanJS](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/3361) and [How to manage state & data flow](https://gitter.im/canjs/canjs?at=5ac611f0e3d0b1ff2ca439bd)
- [Create stache animation guide and functionality](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/3864)