2023-04-27 Frontend Working Group Meeting Notes

5-10 minutes

General catchin-up

Adolfo Brandes

• Conference updates (repeats last meeting)

  • Adolfo and Brian Smith’s MFE dev tutorial: feel free to use the material.

  • There were talks about MFE domains (Adolfo) and frontend extensibility (David Joy). See slides and videos on 2023 Open edX Conference Session Talks & Tutorials.

  • FWG conference session was about deprecating old frontends in edx-platform. More details: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3712680008/LMS+Endpoints+Rendered+By+Django#Process%2FNext-Steps-Suggestions

10 minutes

MFEs in Palm

Adolfo Brandes

• Status of the Palm MFE list

  • ORA Grading: still pending this PR (on Adolfo’s court)

  • Communications: needs a community maintainer and proper review.

  • Learner Dashboard: will be offered as “experimental”. The maintaining team has agreed to review PRs that address bugs and other changes that make it work with Tutor. It is suggested that a tutor-contrib-learner-dashboard plugin be created in the openedx org.

• Node 18 update: currently blocked by Enterprise. FED-BOM is working to try and get it in for Palm, but not guaranteed.

5 minutes

Frontend Plugins

David Joy (Deactivated)

• 2U is starting to see use cases for frontend plugins to help maintain our MFE architectural boundaries and keep 2U-specific code out of the open source repos.

• David’s planning on trying to write up a technical specification referencing a few open PRs related to the effort. (JS file config, iframe based experience plugins)