Maintenance Plan

[saihaj]

Hello everyone!

We @the-guild-org are the new maintainers of this project. We investigated current state of this project, triaged all existing issues and PRs so we can address them. Here is our plan: before addressing issues and PRs there are some infra things we need to introduce that will help simplify management of this project and make it simpler to encourage new contributors.

• Setup Renovate Bot to keep dependencies up to date #305
  • Today it uses Dependabot but it lacks many features. Checkout detailed analysis why Renovate bot here https://theguildoss.notion.site/Dependency-Update-Bot-Why-Renovate-ad8590e7fd7a4780bbdfeeee730b95c2
• Update branch Update master to main #259
• Add CI jobs to run tests, lint and flow check Adding workflow #255
• Get NPM publishing access Setup publish token for CI #301
• Setup [changeset](https://github.com/changesets/changesets) for publishing to NPM
• Make it platform agnostic [BUG] 'ReferenceError: setImmediate is not defined' on the browser #249
• Add performance benchmarks Is there a performance benchmark? #238
• Migrate to TypeScript wip: TypeScript #295
• Add new examples
  • [REQUEST] Mongoose example #199
  • Add DynamoDB example #241
  • Add example for Cloud Firestore #268
• Documentation - answer questions and possibly add to docs
  • [QUESTION] Any recommendations for using DataLoader with pivot tables? #289
  • [QUESTION] data loader batch load fails when non-data loader function is included among data-loader functions. #285
  • nested queries and info #272
  • [QUESTION] How should I paginate my data using DataLoader? #231
  • [QUESTION] Is possible chain two dataloaders? #229
  • [BUG] batchScheduleFn is always called even if value taken from cache #243
  • Using dataloader at leaf level of multi layer schema failed to batch #276
• Review feature requests and maybe implement them
  • [QUESTION] caching period #290
  • [REQUEST] return Object instead of map of a arguments in batchFn #274
  • [REQUEST] Option to not cache errors #258
  • [REQUEST] Update types to support an array of promises as the resolved value for batchLoadFn #247
  • [REQUEST] dataloader accept information of 'selected fields' #236
  • [REQUEST] Prime by promise #235
  • [Feature request] Remove same length check or auto full fill #233
  • [BUG] Loader incorrectly creates a new batch before reaching maxBatchSize and batch dispatch #294

If you have any suggestions or feedback let us know!