1.0 Planning

Goals

• Better API
  • More consistent
  • Easier to use
    • Functions instead of getters/setters?
    • Promise-based?
• 100% Typescript
  • Makes typing events easier internally because we have actual handlers to type
• Progressive parsing
• Plugin system?

Ideas

• Hooks into license request flow for DRM server manipulations
• Fewer events used internally will allow easier control flow introspection
• Allow developers to use their own captions renderer/fire cues event

Open Questions

• Should we continue to use getters/setters in the public API?
  • Example: currentLevel changes a level, which is a big side effect
  • Consensus seems to be yes
• What APIs/configs can we remove/consolidate?
• What should our default config value be?
  • See https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/pull/2200#discussion_r276358027
• How do we handle event order dependencies when instantiating controllers?
  • Some controllers need to set up before any other because they rely on handling an event first
• Should we outlaw static class properties?
  • Probably: they do not minify well
• Should we tackle the plugin system now?
  • Probably not - @itsjamie: 1.0.0 will be big already, and we can add a plugin system without changing the public API for the distro users.
• Drop Bower support: https://bower.io/blog/2017/how-to-drop-bower-support/