Gradient texture node

At the moment I’m busy with porting my old Flash and Moho 2D animations to Blender and Verge3D. I worked out a good workflow for it.
I use Color Ramp heavily for coloring my 2D animations with good results. I would like to also do radial gradients but then I need the Gradient Shader Node to work. Have you any plans on supporting that node?
That would be cool!
Simone