2024-10-24 Frontend Working Group Meeting Notes: frontend-base header
- Adolfo Brandes
Date, time, location
Date:Oct 24, 2024 at 15:00 UTC (timezone converter)
Location: https://meet.google.com/cxz-yjwi-gvi
Discussion topic(s)
New header in frontend-base
🎥Recording
Please be advised: Frontend Working Group meetings are recorded and transcribed.
Video: Frontend Working Group Meeting – 2024/10/24 11:57 BRT – Recording
Chat: Frontend Working Group Meeting – 2024/09/26 11:57 BRT – Chat
Transcript: Frontend Working Group Meeting – 2024/10/24 11:57 BRT – Transcript
Participants
Adolfo Brandes, Brian Smith, David Joy, Fox Piacenti, Jason Wesson, Juan Carlos Iasenza, Leonel Katsikaris, Max Frank, Rabeeh T A
🤖 Summary
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.
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.
Footer Development:
David presented a prototype for a more ve