The Keystone Roadmap

What's up next

We're using the foundations we shipped in 2021 as a springboard to bring developers, project owners, and editors into more productive ways of working together. Our key areas of focus are:

Schema-driven authentication

Keystone operates on the schema-driven principle. Right now, authentication in Keystone is left up to the developers to implement. This leads to every Keystone project having auth handled in a slightly different way.

We want to change that and offer a predictable, schema-driven first-party authentication solution for Keystone.

Next-gen Admin UI

Our design and labs teams have re-imagined a state-of-the-art Admin UI. One that is responsive, accessible and functional. The fruit of this work led to Keystar UI, an internal design system we've been battle-testing with Keystatic.

This body of work will elevate the experience of authoring content in Keystone to the same high standards we have for authoring with Keystone's core APIs.

Maturing the Developer Experience

At Thinkmill, we have a longstanding commitment to open source that includes the likes of react select, classnames, Keystatic, and of course Keystone.

We'll continue to iterate on this knowledge and learning loop to make Keystone the easiest way to design and standup a GraphQL API on the web. Going all-in on Typescript has made the DX so sweet, but we want to take it further so that Keystone's the best Typescript > GraphQL developer experience in the ecosystem. ✨

We'll also focus on making better pathways for you to integrate Keystone with the deployment services you use most, so you can get the most out of where the modern web is going. Image and file management is an area we're actively iterating on, and we'll have more to share soon.

Feature roadmap

Here's what we've been working on, and what's coming next.

Recently released

• Fields & Schema

  Singletons

  A way to define a single object in schema that's editable in Admin UI and accessible in the GraphQL API. Handy for storing website & social settings, API keys, and more.

• Admin UI

  Field Groups

  It's often easier to work with content when the form is grouped into different sections of related fields. Learn more

• Core

  Back-end APIs for Node.js apps

  Access your GraphQL APIs from Node.js for greater flexibility when writing apps and hybrid use-cases.

Current focus

• Fields & Schema

  Conditional fields

  Dynamically showing fields based on the value of other fields is a great way to improve editing flow and content integrity.

• Admin UI

  Next-gen Admin UI

  Make the Admin UI responsive, accessible and i18n compliant with the battle-tested Keystar UI design system.

Next up

• Fields & Schema

  Nested fields

  Sometimes you need to manage data in structures that are nested and/or repeating. We're working on a way to define these in schema and have them stored as JSON field in the database.

• Core

  Sortable lists

  Certain list types come with a need to order the items they contain. We're looking in to an approach that's easy to implement in schema.

• Docs

  Build & Deployment options

  We're broadening our list of streamlined scenarios & looking into options for serverless environments.

Further afield

• Admin UI

  Content preview

  Built-in tooling for you to give editors a sense of how their content will be consumed by end users.

• Admin UI

  Custom publishing workflows

  Design your own journey from draft to published to meet the unique needs of your content team.

• Admin UI

  Relationship management

  More powerful interfaces for managing different scales of related data, from small to really really large

• Core

  GraphQL Subscriptions

  Long lasting server operations that can change their result over time. Handy for updating your front-end in real time when important data changes in your backend.

• Core

  Field Translations

  A built-in schema-driven approach to supporting multilingual content projects.

• Core

  Upsert mutations

  If you want to update an item but aren't sure if it exists, this will update the item if it's there or create a new item with the data you've provided.

• Core

  Serverless hosting

  The future of deployment is serverless, and we're tracking the state of the ecosystem to make sure Keystone is ready for it.

• Core

  Native full-text search

  A way for you and editors to easily search for strings across your entire dataset. Handy for when you need something specific but don't know where it lives.