frontend-component-header

Purpose

A generic header for Open edX micro-frontend applications.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

The devstack is currently recommended as a development environment for your new MFE. If you start it with make dev.up.lms that should give you everything you need as a companion to this frontend.

Note that it is also possible to use Tutor to develop an MFE. You can refer to the relevant tutor-mfe documentation to get started using it.

Requirements

This component uses @edx/frontend-platform services such as i18n, analytics, configuration, and the AppContext React component, and expects that it has been loaded into a micro-frontend that has been properly initialized via @edx/frontend-platform's initialize function. Please visit the frontend template application to see an example.

Environment Variables

• LMS_BASE_URL - The URL of the LMS of your Open edX instance.
• LOGOUT_URL - The URL of the API endpoint which performs a user logout.
• LOGIN_URL - The URL of the login page where a user can sign into their account.
• SITE_NAME - The user-facing name of the site, used as alt text on the logo in the header. Defaults to "localhost" in development.
• LOGO_URL - The URL of the site's logo. This logo is displayed in the header.
• ORDER_HISTORY_URL - The URL of the order history page.
• ACCOUNT_PROFILE_URL - The URL of the account profile page.
• ACCOUNT_SETTINGS_URL - The URL of the account settings page.
• AUTHN_MINIMAL_HEADER - A boolean flag which hides the main menu, user menu, and logged-out menu items when truthy. This is intended to be used in micro-frontends like frontend-app-authentication in which these menus are considered distractions from the user's task.

Installation

To install this header into your Open edX micro-frontend, run the following command in your MFE:

npm i --save @edx/frontend-component-header

This will make the component available to be imported into your application.

Cloning and Startup

1. Clone your new repo:

  ``git clone https://github.com/openedx/frontend-component-header.git``

2. Use node v18.x.

  The current version of the micro-frontend build scripts support node 18.
  Using other major versions of node *may* work, but this is unsupported.  For
  convenience, this repository includes an .nvmrc file to help in setting the
  correct node version via `nvm <https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm>`_.

3. Install npm dependencies:

  ``cd frontend-component-header && npm ci``

4. Start the dev server:

  ``npm start``

Usage

This library has the following exports:

• (default): The header as a React component.
• messages: Internationalization messages suitable for use with @edx/frontend-platform/i18n
• dist/index.scss: A SASS file which contains style information for the component. It should be imported into the micro-frontend's own SCSS file.

Plugins

This can be customized using Frontend Plugin Framework.

The parts of this that can be customized in that manner are documented here.

Examples

• An example of component and messages usage.
• An example of SCSS file usage.

Development

Install dependencies:

npm ci

Start the development server:

npm start

Build a production distribution:

npm run build

License

The code in this repository is licensed under the AGPLv3 unless otherwise noted.

Please see LICENSE for details.

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome. Please read How To Contribute for details.

This project is currently accepting all types of contributions, bug fixes, security fixes, maintenance work, or new features. However, please make sure to have a discussion about your new feature idea with the maintainers prior to beginning development to maximize the chances of your change being accepted. You can start a conversation by creating a new issue on this repo summarizing your idea.

Getting Help

If you're having trouble, we have discussion forums at https://discuss.openedx.org where you can connect with others in the community.

Our real-time conversations are on Slack. You can request a Slack invitation, then join our community Slack workspace. Because this is a frontend repository, the best place to discuss it would be in the #wg-frontend channel.

For anything non-trivial, the best path is to open an issue in this repository with as many details about the issue you are facing as you can provide.

https://github.com/openedx/frontend-component-header/issues

For more information about these options, see the Getting Help page.

The Open edX Code of Conduct

All community members are expected to follow the Open edX Code of Conduct.

Reporting Security Issues

Please do not report security issues in public. Please email [email protected].