29th of March
This is a summary of Front-end Forum held on Wednesday the 29th of March, 2023.
Forum summary
This time the forum gathered about 12 persons physically in Samhandlingssonen, and 18 on Teams. This is a record attendance for Teams-participants and the re-branded Front-end Forum. Thanks for showing up, do spread the knowledge and the word about Front-end Forum.
Topics that we covered during this session were:
30 minutes
We managed to put a lot of information into this 30 minute session, even though we skipped a session last week.
- Core 30 had two big releases since last
- v2.1 and v2.2
- Multiple improvements, and bug fixes.
- Lots of new Icons
- Even a new component: Link List
- Read the release notes
- Follow #core-components
- Form Patterns is now "stable" in Figma.
- Follow #form-patterns
- Moving on for Phase 2 that will cover things related to validation and help.
- Join the conversation on #form-patterns
- Collab-session with us front-enders on the 26th of April!
- More details to come.
- Custom Parts version 2
- Instead of just loading a client-side app, mounted in a div, it can do SSR and custom form for the editor.
- Being tested out
- Uses react4xp library, that has matured a lot, developed by Enonic.
- Early alpha but looks promising.
- Reach out if interested.
- More info to come.
- UU / Accessibility
- More focus in Gjensidige
- WCAG 2.1 is as of February law to follow by all governmental websites
- UU-tilsynet in Norway makes sure business follow these. They are not super-strict, so don't panic, but also do what you can to grow your UU skills.
- Read our basics
- A larger training-session is being planned for Gjensidige on this.
- Most likely employees only, most likely only Norway-based staff, and only a limited group of mixed disciplines. But videos will be made available afterwards.
- Follow #accessibility
- Releases
- Denmark is now live
- Norway has an open beta
- New navigation runs on beta!
Closing words
Thank you for participating! Spread the news about Front-end Forum to others who might benefit from it. Agenda posted weekly before each forum, in #frontend on Slack.
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