TermCraft conventionFoundational
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.
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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Deeper reading
The full entry behind this definition.
- Status Quo BiasCognitive bias
- Design System GovernanceDesign system
- Versioning and DeprecationDesign system
Nearby in the Atlas
Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.