2024-10-24 Frontend Working Group Meeting Notes: frontend-base header

 Date, time, location

 Discussion topic(s)

New header in frontend-base

🎥Recording

Please be advised: Frontend Working Group meetings are recorded and transcribed.

 Participants

Adolfo Brandes, Brian Smith, David Joy, Fox Piacenti, Jason Wesson, Juan Carlos Iasenza, Leonel Katsikaris, Max Frank, Rabeeh T A

🤖 Summary

  1. Front End Base Initiative:

    • David Joy introduced "frontend-base," a single, unified library to replace various frontend components, including headers and footers. This initiative aims to improve configurability and usability across different platforms.

    • He demonstrated the new header and footer functionality, showcasing customizable, component-driven configurations for headers that replace previous complex implementations.

  2. Header Configurations:

    • The new headers, configured within a “site config” file, allow flexible and dynamic updates across modules, reducing the need for major code adjustments.

    • David highlighted that headers can now respond dynamically to module-specific requirements, such as different links for studio or learning environments.

  3. Footer Development:

    • David presented a prototype for a more ve