Hexo Roadmap

[NoahDragon]

Here is a to-do list for Hexo:

New features:

• Add taxonomies to hexo Add taxonomies to hexo #828
• Support multiple non-hierarchical categories Support multiple non-hierarchical categories #848 PR 848 hierarchical categories #2734
• Paginating a post like WordPress <!--nextpage-->? How to split post like WordPress <!--nextpage--> #3035, Paginating a post? #896
• Why can't pages use tags and categories? use tags and categories in pages #1067
• Expose code highlight extend point to use other highlight tools. Add filter event for backtick code block #1891 Feature request: support other syntax highlight libraries #4010
• Support other syntax highlighting libraries https://github.com/hexojs/hexo-util/issues/108 (Highlight.js is slow Highlight.js is slow #1036) feat: add prism highlight support #4119
• Get rid of index.html in URL Get rid of index.html in URL #1306 feat(permalink): add pretty_urls option to remove index.html from url #3691
• Single File, Generate/ Deploy Single File, Generate/ Deploy #2519
• Support single page application (SPA), like Vuelog.
• Expand the cli tool.
  • Plugin management Plugin management hexo-cli#174
  • Install theme through npm install Feature Request: Install theme through npm install #2471
• Apply include: / exclude: to all folders (notably themes/) docs(configuration): add ignore site#1195
• Verify the configuration file feat(config): validate config after load_config #4381

Fixes:

• partial not support look up parent directory, and absolute path not functioning as well partial不支持向上级目录查找，绝对路径也不可以使用 #819
• include_code link and root config include_code link and root config #928
• hexo server error when I change the config hexo server error when I change the config #1099 (fix(#1099): hexo server error when changing the config #5055)
• is_current('') is always true, regardless of current page url is_current('') is always true, regardless of current page url #1112 (Expected behavior)
• Default language Default language #1125 Use default language when no language set #3069 Use old language file selection when no default file exists #3110
• Spaced string in imgTag Spaced string in imgTag #1277
• Anchors in individual blog entries aren't made unique in the main page Anchors in individual blog entries aren't made unique in the main page #1302
• relative_link: true doesn't work correctly relative_link: true doesn't work correctly  #1381
• AppVeyor test case fails Failed on nodejs fs.stat dev appveyor/ci#1560
• Post name support underscore to connect variables new_post_name 中如何用下划线分隔日期和标题 #1970
• Different result between hexo g and hexo s [BUG] page.post template variable behaves differently when using hexo serve and hexo generate #2451 og:meta-tags not rendered in hexo generate / works in hexo server #2503 is_post() return different  #2897 when rendering index.html, the variable page.content has different value when exec hexo g and hexo s #2902 the compiled result of 'hexo g' is different with 'hexo s'. Help! #2979 Hexo server or hexo generate two kinds of results are not the same #3171 perf(cache): Improve cache, Reduce Memory Usages #3756
• --watch triggers whole site regeneration 'hexo generate --watch' renders all files when one file changes, very slow #2991
• Proper handling of templates in a post {{ should not be rendered in a post #3259

Miscellaneous:

• Convert old js code to ES6 standard.
  • Source code
  • Test code Convert js to es6 #2488
• Speed is the key.
• Reduce the number of issues to below 100, which is a decent amount to manage by few people.
• Raise fund to cover existing fees (like domain name fee) and buy extra services (like NPM organization) Activating Open Collective #2494. Open Collective Account Open Collective is controlling the fund. Maybe bitcoin or paypal donation could be a better approach. @tommy351 figure out a way to cover the cost.
• Clean up leftover tasks in old milestone (Move to 4.0)
• Jade to pug docs: add deprecate message hexo-renderer-jade#35
• Remove swig dependency Replace default swig engine with nunjucks #2903
• Awesome-hexo repo https://github.com/hexojs/awesome-hexo
• Docker image to avoid the environment setting issue. feat: add docker support #3891
• Using Prepack to optimize the code.
• Hexo newsletter.
• Hexo general email account. hi@hexo.io
• Add meta generator to Hexo generated website. Add generator meta site#649 848 hierarchical categories #2734
• Replace cheerio with native API Replace cheerio with native API #3677
• Migrate helper plugins to hexo-util
• Integrate hexo-bunyan into hexo-log
• Enforce ES6 syntax feat: prefer ES6 syntax eslint-config-hexo#22
• Refactor Promise to async/await [feature request] Consideration of using async / await #3328
• Adopt Prettier style feat: eslint-plugin-prettier eslint-config-hexo#25
• Replace lodash with native API Replace lodash with native API #3753, project
  • Drop _ (lodash) from Locals/global variable
• Refactor to WHATWG URL API (Project page)
• Improve test coverage Improve test coverage #3984
• Multi core usage The proposal of using Multi Threads #4355

Please feel free to leave your thought in comments.

[kirkcameron]

make sure, that hexo s and hexo g are in sync and take care about the meta tags in < head >, before introducing any new features, please.

see here: #2503

[mnlbox]

Please work on performance and multi core support on hexo server and hexo generate. I have major problem with big site generation in Hexo like this: #2579

[NoahDragon]

@mnlbox Yes, it will be the major update in 4.0 build.

[kirkcameron]

any news, regarding the release date, especially for #2503 ?

[NoahDragon]

@kirkcameron Not yet. The server calls the render function is as same as the generator, don't have clue why causes the differences.

[huiwang]

@NoahDragon could you please share more details on the performance improvement?

[NoahDragon]

@huiwang Thanks for asking.

The generating performance issue is really hard to reproduce. It may cause by plugin, renderer, or Hexo self. We occasionally receive issue regarding performance, but only few shared their source to investigate. As far as I know, all of them are plugin and theme issue.

I also tested performance on Hexo vanilla install, 1000 posts generated costs 3 mins. Still, have space to improve, but seems not a major issue.

[tcrowe]

I noticed there's some confusion about how to do unit testing. This mocha.opts will help:
https://gist.github.com/tcrowe/b22a63daea19eaee69fe2bc37adee854

[tcrowe]

Prettier can be included to force a uniform style across all hexo projects and it will integrate with eslint-config-hexo.

npm install prettier eslint-plugin-prettier

./.pretterrc

{
  "proseWrap": "never"
}

./.eslintrc

"plugins": ["node", "prettier"],

eslint --fix will then format using prettier.

[microSoftware]

Is Hexo still maintained? I love it but most packages are years old and I can't make my website multi-language :(

[yoshinorin]

@microSoftware

Is Hexo still maintained?

Yes. Sure :)

most packages are years old

As you know some packages are not published new version but we continue to commit each official repositories.

I can't make my website multi-language :(

Hexo i18n seems a little bit difficult. (Sorry, I'm not familiar with Hexo i18n...)
I think this issue @tcrowe answer might help you :)

[microSoftware]

Ok. After I tried most things to make it multi-language. I think the easiest solution is to create a seperate blog for each language. And create a simple dropdown in javascript in the theme.

[DBJDBJ]

@microSoftware , yes that is the most feasible way. Anything else requires Concept, Architecture, Design and Implementation that will complicate the things considerably. Just to be used by very small percentage of users.

If still interested, there is no shame in learning from (very long)WP experience, Perhaps starting from here.

[gautamz07]

@tcrowe is there a specific brance all these changes are being developed or worked on ?

[tcrowe]

@gautamz07 Each change, or set of changes, will be done in individual issues and PRs. So, if you want to do one of the items in the original post you can create a branch on your computer, do the change, and then create a PR.

Some patience is required to get a review and approval.

[yoshinorin]

I changed issue title. Please see #3508 discussion.

[noraj]

#3259 seems to bring breaking changes

[SukkaW]

Drops resolve from dependency in Hexo 7.0.0, see #4863

[yaoqs]

wish add new command, such as:

hexo delete my_post //delete post
hexo modify my_post //modify post,if not exist, new one

[awongCM]

Hi there,

Are you still looking for more active contributors for this page? Just curious..