2020-04-23 Meeting notes

Status

• Alasdair

  • Design to figure out COntentful / drupal deprication strategy

  • Stale drupal pages

    • A lot deletion/not porting over stale pages

    • Building a template for marketing to self serve

• David Joy

  • Error checking in frontend platform to be less strict (console warns instead of exploding)

• Livvy

  • Adding a US state field to account page

    • Where to get a list of US States? (@David Joy (Deactivated) or @Adam Butterworth (Deactivated) to follow up)

• Jeff

  • Hackathon went well. Trying to get ID verification overall into work pipeline.

    • There is some momentum

  • Working with inside track people with minor bugs

• Mike Terry

  • Always available started working on course home MFE

    • @David Joy (Deactivated) happy to give a tour because there’s some new stuff. There are a bunch of ADRs in the repo

• Sharon

  • Design sprinting

• Adam S

  • IE11 / Edge bug in last bug

    • GA traffic 17% is coming through those browsers

    • Had to upgrade Babel to use core-js 3

  • Refactoring Paragon’s search field

    • Broken in IE11 / Edge (users cannot type in the input field)

      • CSS styling makes width 0 so cannot click into it

    • Will resolve this.

• Adam B

  • https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FEDX/pages/1364886433

  • Document to help understand how our frontend deployments work

    • edge.edx.org uses subdomain as the regular domain which causes issues because we want appname.edge.edx.org

      • Used by some institutions to test content and for small course runs

      • Alternate prod environment that happens to live on a subdomain

• TJ

  • Adding webview for program pages in prospectus

    • Moving from sub-domain (webview.edx.org) to webview route (edx.org/webview/…)

    • Bolted on for now

      • Hopefully laying down something we can build upon when move other pages across

  • New modal for demographics collection to the student dashboard

    • Collecting for coaching purposes for just microBachelors students at first. May roll out to all users at some point (speak to Ryan or AJ for more information).

    • Questions;

      • Platform a11y issues for modals?

      • Add React to django templates?

        • @Farhanah Sheets (Deactivated) worked on implementing this

Frontend Study Group Planning