v1 Roadmap

[yamcodes]

Hey everyone! 2026 just began here in Almaty, and I want to take a moment to look back on the past year for ArkEnv. When I started ArkEnv in 2025, I did not expect it to become my most successful project, with multiple contributors, passionate users, and encouragement from the open source community, including people I have looked up to for years. Thank you.

In 2026, I am looking forward to more contributors, more users, and more eyes on the project. As we add features and fixes, we have more people to support, and I want to do this right. That means getting ready for a production-ready, stable v1 release.

To make v1 concrete, success looks like:

• Stable API with clear deprecation policy
• Comprehensive test coverage across core paths
• Solid documentation with examples and migration notes
• Clear error messages and predictable validation behavior
• Clearly documented MO and codebase that's faithful to it

With that, I am announcing the v1 Roadmap for ArkEnv. I intend to follow and prioritize this over new features not listed here, while staying open to adjustments as we go.

• createEnv facelift #129
• Expose type function #139
• Arkenv default export #147
• Support Bun frontend process.env prefixing (e.g. BUN_PUBLIC_*) #181
• Fix Array defaults bug in Vite-plugin #224, Fix support for array defaults using type().default() syntax #199
• Coercion (string→number, string→boolean, etc.)  #228
  • Array parsing #574
  • Object parsing #575
• Vite support #366
• Presets for popular hosting providers #610
• Next.js integration #655
• Validator mode (make ArkType optional, support Standard Schema directly) #722
  • Remove @repo/keywords #726
  • Standard JSON Schema-based coercion #706
  • Unify error normalization and formatting #709
• Internal code sharing strategy #736
• Distribution integration testing & artifact verification #735
• Release v1
• Document v1 announcement

You can also see this in the "Milestones" section in GitHub: https://github.com/yamcodes/arkenv/milestone/1

If you want to help, the biggest impact areas right now are testing, docs, and triage. Please comment on open issues above or open new ones with clear repro steps and context. Thank you for being part of ArkEnv. ⛯

[yamcodes]

Added #709 to the roadmap to keep the #704 focused.