2023-07-26 Meeting notes

Introductions | Interns

Welcome!

5 minutes

Deprecation of compound components in Paragon (e.g., Form.Control).

@Adam Stankiewicz

https://github.com/openedx/public-engineering/issues/204

Example: Form.Group → FormGroup

5-10 minutes

Bundle size CI checks for Paragon (and other frontend repos)

@Adam Stankiewicz

Examples:

• bundlewatch

• bundlesize

[inform] Request for Axim to add support for such tools to openedx GitHub organization: https://github.com/openedx/axim-engineering/issues/837

[Brian] Great idea! Concern: relying on any third-party CI could be temperamental (could the service be down?).

• Lean towards something that can run locally in the repo (no external service).

• Does this have to be a required check or can it be optional?

0-1 minutes

[resource] Recent Paragon design tokens slide deck

@Adam Stankiewicz

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iqtjwU1ymze7Jj4auXpUXelSt_LE6oSuL_LHGV6ce9g/edit?usp=sharing

This presentation about Paragon design tokens should help give an overview of the vision for the design tokens project and high-level technical details.

10 minutes

Brief exploration: into Figma Dev Mode + Figma for VSCode

@Adam Stankiewicz

Dev Mode

Gives developers a space within Figma, and makes it more approachable / less overwhelming.

• Mark as “Ready for dev”

• Component playground

• Dev resources

Figma for VSCode

Brings Figma into VSCode (VSCode Extension)

• Browse recently opened / shared Figma files.

• Collaborate in VSCode with Figma comments.

[resource] Designer and developer workflows unlocked using Dev Mode - Jake A, Avantika G, Lauren A, Jenny L

5-10 min

WYSYWIG for Paragon

@Vladyslav Zadorozhnii

In the https://github.com/openedx/frontend-lib-content-components there is WYSYWIG. Maybe it is good idea to move to Paragon?

• When should components be created in Paragon vs. frontend-lib-content-components?

  • May not intended to be truly generic; could be specific to course authoring (content creation) and library authoring domain.

  • Built on top of Paragon components.

  • Name can be confusing.

• There was some discussions in the past. Open source concerns around TinyMCE plugins for edx.org vs. Open edX.

• Is there value in having a non-TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor?

  • [Gabe] “we have plenty of use cases for a WYSIWYG in paragon and there is value imo”

@Jeff Witt

Q: What is source of truth for Paragon docs: Figma or docs site?

• Docs site is code, and is what gets shipped to users and product teams.

• If there is a discrepancy,

@Jeff Witt

Don’t trap focus! edx.org search input header gets trapped…

• Jeff put in a CR; not sure who owns it. Possible buggy behavior in terms of bug fix related to flash.

• We should prioritize a fix for this.

• Search input uses SearchField but does appear to be implementation specific to edx.org.