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ByteGrid Development Roadmap
Last Updated: 2025-10-14 Current Phase: Phase 2 (Core Features)
Phase 1: MVP ✅ COMPLETED
Goal: Basic structure visualization with manual field definition
Completed Features
- Project structure setup (monorepo with core + plugin)
- Basic type definitions (ByteGridConfig, Field, LayoutBlock)
- YAML parser with js-yaml
- Field validation (overlap detection, range checking)
- Simple layout engine (single row)
- Basic SVG renderer
- Obsidian plugin integration
- Test infrastructure (Jest)
Status: ✅ All core functionality implemented
Phase 2: Core Features 🚧 IN PROGRESS
Goal: Robust visualization with advanced layout options
Completed Features ✅
- Multi-row layout support
- Grid lines rendering
- Color system (9 predefined colors)
- Bitfield visualization (sub-byte fields)
- Bit-unit layout mode (
layoutUnit: bit) - Suffix notation (
32b,4B) - Legend position control (
legendPosition: right/left/bottom/none) - Legend multi-column layout (
legendColumns) - Footer visibility control (
showFooter: true/false) - Color schemes (default, dark, light modes)
- Auto color assignment (
autoColor: true/false) - Comprehensive test coverage (141 tests)
In Progress 🔄
- Row/column labels customization
- Cell padding/spacing options
Planned Features 📋
- Hex dump display (
showHexDump: true) - Bit order selection (
bitOrder: 'msb'/'lsb')- MSB first: 7-6-5-4-3-2-1-0 (default, current behavior)
- LSB first: 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7
- Field description tooltips
- Value display formatting (hex, decimal, binary)
- Endianness indicators
Target Completion: Q4 2025
Phase 3: Interactive Features 📅 PLANNED
Goal: Rich user interaction and real-time visualization
Features
- Interactive tooltips on hover
- Field name, type, offset
- Description and value
- Bit range for bitfields
- Field highlighting
- Click to highlight field
- Show all related blocks
- Copy field info to clipboard
- Zoom controls
- Zoom in/out
- Pan/scroll for large structures
- Search/filter fields
- Search by name or type
- Filter by color or category
- Export options
- Export as SVG file
- Export as PNG image
- Export as C struct definition
- Copy as Markdown table
Target Start: Q1 2026
Phase 4: Advanced Features 📅 FUTURE
Goal: Binary file integration and advanced analysis
Binary File Support
- Binary file parser (
binaryParser.ts)- Read binary files
- Auto-populate field values
- Endianness handling
- Generate hex dump
- File format templates
- WAV_HEADER (audio files)
- ELF_HEADER (executables)
- TCP_HEADER (network packets)
- PNG_HEADER (image files)
- Custom template system
Structure Analysis
- Structure comparison (
comparison.ts)- Side-by-side view
- Overlay view
- Diff highlighting
- Padding analysis
- Auto-detect padding bytes
- Show memory waste
- Suggest optimizations
- Alignment visualization
- Show alignment boundaries
- Detect misaligned fields
- Platform-specific rules
Target Start: Q2 2026
Phase 5: Performance & Scale 📅 FUTURE
Goal: Handle large structures and optimize rendering
Performance Optimization
- Rendering cache (
cache.ts)- Hash-based cache keys
- TTL-based expiration
- localStorage persistence
- Virtual scrolling
- Lazy render large structures
- Only render visible rows
- Smooth scrolling
- Pagination
- Break large structures (>1000 bytes)
- Page navigation controls
- Jump to offset
Large Structure Support
- Performance benchmarks
- 1KB: < 100ms
- 10KB: < 500ms
- 100KB: < 2s (with pagination)
- Memory optimization
- Efficient data structures
- DOM node recycling
- Progressive rendering
Target Start: Q3 2026
Phase 6: Extensibility 📅 FUTURE
Goal: Plugin system and customization
Custom Extensions
- Type system extensions
- Custom type definitions
- Type aliases
- Nested structures
- Union types
- Custom color schemes
- User-defined palettes
- Theme import/export
- Dark/light mode auto-switch
- Render hooks
- Pre-render processing
- Post-render modifications
- Custom SVG elements
- Plugin API
- Register custom parsers
- Add custom validators
- Extend layout engine
Developer Tools
- Debug mode
- Show internal state
- Performance metrics
- Error details
- Documentation generator
- Auto-generate type docs
- Example templates
- Interactive playground
Target Start: Q4 2026
Current Sprint (October 2024)
Completed This Sprint ✅
- Bit-unit layout implementation
- Legend position options (right, left, bottom, none)
- Footer visibility control
- Fix legend overlapping issues
- Add comprehensive tests for new features
- Documentation updates
Next Sprint Goals (November 2024)
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Color Schemes (Priority: High)
- Implement dark and light color schemes
- Add
colorSchemeoption to config - Update color constants
- Add tests
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Hex Dump Display (Priority: Medium)
- Add
showHexDumpoption - Render hex values below grid
- Format with proper spacing
- Handle large structures
- Add
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Documentation (Priority: High)
- Create user guide in docs/
- Add more examples
- API reference cleanup
Known Limitations & Future Improvements
Current Limitations
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YAML Line Numbers
- Error messages show field index, not line number
- Improvement: Custom YAML parser with position tracking
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Cache Persistence
- Cache cleared on session end
- Improvement: localStorage persistence (Phase 5)
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Type System
- No custom type definitions
- No nested structures
- Improvement: Type alias system (Phase 6)
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Bit Ordering
- Assumes MSB-first
- Improvement: Add
bitOrder: msb/lsboption
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Layout Constraints
- Fixed cell sizes per visualization
- Improvement: Responsive cell sizing
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on:
- Proposing new features
- Submitting pull requests
- Testing requirements
- Code style guidelines
Versioning Strategy
Following Semantic Versioning (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH):
- MAJOR: Breaking changes to public API
- MINOR: New features, backward compatible
- PATCH: Bug fixes, performance improvements
Planned Releases
- v0.2.0 - Phase 2 completion (Color schemes, hex dump)
- v0.3.0 - Phase 3 start (Interactive features)
- v1.0.0 - Production ready (All core features stable)
- v2.0.0 - Phase 4-5 (Binary files, performance)
Feedback & Priorities
Feature priorities may change based on:
- User feedback and requests
- Community contributions
- Technical dependencies
- Performance considerations
To suggest features or vote on priorities:
- Open an issue on GitHub
- Join discussions in the community
- Contribute code or documentation
Document Version: 1.0 Next Review: December 2024