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2026-01-15 Frontend Working Group Meeting Notes: Paragon theme variants, frontend-base project management

2026-01-15 Frontend Working Group Meeting Notes: Paragon theme variants, frontend-base project management

 Date, time, location

 Discussion topic(s)

One, maybe two topics to be presented or discussed in depth in the upcoming meeting.

🎥Recording

 Participants

Adolfo Brandes, Brian Smith, Jacobo Dominguez, Javier Ontiveros, Jesse Stewart-WGU, Jesus Balderrama, Sarina Canelake

🤖 Summary

Key Discussion Topics & Decisions:

  • Paragon Theme Variants & Dark Mode:

    • Status: Logic to react to light/dark mode preference (prefers-color-scheme) exists, but there is no UI mechanism for users to select a specific theme variant.

    • Benchmark: GitHub's settings/appearance page for theme selection was suggested as a model for advanced options, with a simple toggle for light/dark in the header/footer.

  • Project Management & Roadmap (Front-end Base):

    • Tooling: Discussed using GitHub Projects for the front-end base project board, focusing on Epics, Backlog, and Iterations (sprints).

    • Milestones: Dependency Freeze (Feb 9th), Verawood Cutoff (April 14th), and Release (v1.0) (June 9th) were set as rough targets.

    • Process: Agreed to prioritize bug fixes (making them top priority for the next sprint) and to create a parent issue/epic for general improved tooling/developer experience (DX) issues.

  • Individual Task Updates & Assignments:

    • Learner Dashboard React Query Conversion: Jacobo Dominguez is approximately 60% complete and believes it is possible to finish before the Dependency Freeze.

    • Auth MFE React Query Conversion: Jesus Balderrama is taking over this task from Javier Ontiveros after finishing his current task (fixing learned apper test).

    • Runtime Configuration: Work on runtime config is a priority for Adolfo Brandes and Brian Smith; it is necessary for front-end base MFs to work properly with Tutor.

    • Instructor Dashboard MFE: Jesse Stewart-WGU provided an update on implementing an API for data downloads and confirmed they have the correct API best practices documentation.

    • Tutor MFE Plugin Investigation: Javier Ontiveros will pivot to investigate creating a Tutor MFE plugin that can build and deploy both non-frontend base and front-end base versions of MFEs, with the deployment switch intended to happen at the Caddy level. This work is currently blocked by the runtime configuration task.

  • Critical Bug Identified:

    • Learner Dashboard Login Redirection: The normal redirection to the login screen for unauthenticated users is not working on front-end base (found by Javier Ontiveros and Jesus Balderrama). This was flagged as a high priority bug for the next sprint.