2024-08-15 Frontend Working Group Meeting Notes: Custom component props

 Date, time, location

• Date:Aug 15, 2024 at 15:00 UTC (timezone converter)

• Location: https://meet.google.com/cxz-yjwi-gvi

 Discussion topic(s)

• Proposal on Component Prop Overrides: Adam Stankiewicz introduced a proposal aimed at enabling the extension or overriding of component properties without hard-coding vendor-specific attributes in the codebase. The primary motivation was to handle vendor-specific attributes, such as those used by tools like Datadog and Hotjar, more flexibly.

Meeting notes

• @Adam Stankiewicz feat: support ability for consumers to add custom props / HTML attributes defined via configuration to components by adamstankiewicz · Pull Request #723 · openedx/frontend-platform

  • Open questions:

    • Could this approach be abused from a security POV (e.g., XSS)?

    • Is there a better name than selectors (or is this key needed at all?

    • Is there a concern