Deprecation
Announcing that something is going away and helping people move off it.
Definition
The process of retiring a component, token or API with notice, a replacement and migration support.
Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.
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In plain language
Announcing that something is going away and helping people move off it.
Example
Marking a component deprecated, shipping the replacement, providing a codemod and removing it in the next major version.
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TERM·089 · Region X · Grid C5
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Deeper reading
The full entry behind this definition.
- Status Quo BiasBIAS·005 · Cognitive bias
- Design System GovernanceSYS·004 · Design system
- Versioning and DeprecationSYS·006 · Design system
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