Roadmap

If you're interested in contributing, take a look at where the project is headed in the short-term:

0.7.x releases

Begin drafting and implementing a plugin API
- Allow users to implement their own ShellJS commands
- Add methods on the ShellString class
- Create commands that have subcommands (of the form git.add('file.txt'))
Improve the collaboration experience
- Comments to document confusing parts of the code
- Implement all commands as internal plugins (almost all changes are in the src file and test file)
Write simple plugins to dogfood this API
More unix compatibility with existing commands
Switch to a standard test framework (to facilitate community contributions)

0.8.x releases

More secure replacement to shell.exec() (see #524)
- Try to minimize how much this relies on the file system plugin API (we might release the plugin API before implementing subcommands)
Don't exit the process for internal failures, throw an exception instead (shell.exit() should be the only part of our API that kills the process)
Stricter style linting
Track (and improve) test coverage (goal: 80% line coverage or higher before 0.9)
Improve performance for commonly used commands

0.9.x releases (if we have these)

1.x.x releases

Allow commands to be async (#2)
Run & publish benchmarks on each version (https://github.com/shelljs/benchmarks)
Release ShellJS unix commands as separate packages (similar to how cash commands can be installed individually)

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