2021-04-15 Meeting notes

Full meeting

@Adam Butterworth (Deactivated)

Discuss: Adopt CSS in JS for styling

Short-term goals:

• Make Paragon components portable without SCSS (unlocking upgrades in platform)

• Colocate and clarify styles when creating Paragon components

• Simplify our theming API

Long term goals:

• Enable runtime theming and dark mode development

• Eliminate Bootstrap as a Paragon dependency

• Improve the developer experience working with Paragon (and therefore building microfrontends).

Suggested path forward:

• Adopt styled-components as a CSS-in-JS solution

• Adopt styled-system for theming and component styling (rather than bootstrap utility classes or custom SCSS)

• Adopt the System UI Theme Specification as our theming API

• First steps:

  • BREAKING: Create a ParagonProvider component that offers a default theme and must wrapper the root of the MFE application.

  • BREAKING: Add styled-components as a peer dependency that MFEs must install to use Paragon.

    • Incrementally convert Paragon components to use new styling system. Prioritize components needed in edx-platform.

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5 minutes

@Bronwyn Hawkins (Deactivated)

• Page template designs