Hey Chakra people,

I'm glad to let you know that we're now entering the final phase of the TypeScript release. It's been super challenging and took a lot of work + collaboration to get this working. If you contributed to this release and you're reading this, THANK YOU 💖.

Here's a detailed list of new features and breaking changes to expect in the next release.

New Features & Changes 🥳

• Component Theming API: This is a simple way to style any components and its modifiers (sizes, variants, and color scheme) from the theme object or locally within a chakra factory function. To get an idea, see #695
• Better Color Mode Support: We've fixed the bugs related to Color mode and it's now easy to persist color mode, set initial color mode, and lock specific components to a certain color mode.
• Low-level Hooks: For some components, we'll give users access to their internal React hooks implementation to make it possible to create custom versions of the same component.
• Better TypeScript support: This means all components have very good TypeScript support and most low-level components like Box, Flex, etc. will support the as prop and types will be extracted properly.

Breaking Changes 💣

Here are a few obvious breaking changes, in the docs we'll make sure we provide a detailed step-by-step migration plan.

• We're renaming all variantColor prop to colorScheme to make it easier to understand that this prop represents a visual color style, not a css color attribute. For example, when I say "an outline button with a red color scheme", it's easier to picture what the button looks like without seeing the code or UI.
• We're removing support for the size layout prop. We think the size prop should be constrained to only components (for now). The size prop has caused a lot of confusion in general because in some components it means the visual size, and in some, it means width+height. We recommend you use w or width and h or height as a replacement for size.
• We're deprecating a few style props to reduce the general style props API surface. We'll document these in the docs.

Thank you and I can't wait to get this next release out into your hands so you can build your websites & apps even faster.

Cheers 🥂