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3rd of May

This is a summary of Front-end Forum held on Wednesday the 3rd of May, 2023.

Forum summary

This time the forum gathered about 15 persons physically in Samhandlingssonen, and 6 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:

Core Components

  • Slack-channel changed name from *#core-components* to *#builders-core-components*
  • v3 + v4 + v5
  • Eirik presented a few slides on what's new and what will come.
    • Currently pausing releases of breaking changes, collecting them in one big branch and release for later.
    • Some major rewrites on some components that are generally poorly written.
    • Some adjustments to how components are used, Eirik showed his vision, the room liked it.

Form Patterns

  • More details, and discussion: *#form-patterns*
  • Focused on offering help & behaviour
  • First session held 26th of April
  • Next session: next Wednesday
  • Dedicated collab-session (designers, content designers, and developers)
  • Special invitee only, slots already filled
  • 20 contentdesigners and designers, and 8 brave developers
  • Groups, for each area: HelpText, Placeholder, Validation, Alerts, Tooltip, ++
  • Gather inspiration, pain-points, edge-cases
  • Write do's/dont's, best practice

UU in Gjensidige

  • Workshop Editors/Designers/Developers in D&D
  • Only for Norwegian staff
  • and only employees
  • Two half-days in May (invites already out)
  • In Adam og Eva auditorium in Galleriet
  • Monday 8th of May - 09:00 - 13:00
  • Tuesday 23rd of May - 09:00 - 13:00
  • Sessions will be recorded for those that cannot attend, stored for 1 month

Release of Norwegian website

  • Open pages went live 25th of April
  • Launch went pretty smooth, with assistance of Sales
  • NCI everywhere, even uses new menu
  • /konsern URL and other "About Us"-info still on old design
  • Will move to new .com website also using Builders Platform.

Webshop is out

  • Private Sales-team went live yesterday!
  • Built using the "NCI-toggle" method
  • Displays old design 50% of the time

Logged in pages is out

  • Private Service-team went live yesterday
  • Uses the new global core-navigation

.dk and .se Application Portal

  • Denmark and Norway is from yesterday live on custom Application Portal
  • Maintained and developed by themselves

Browserstack

  • Quick-poll: Would you (like|love|don't care) for Browserstack?
  • Room said: no, not really. It's a neat tool, but not having it doesn't hinder us.
  • We have the physical devices in Norway.
  • We use other methods for testing.
  • Often manual visual testing is enough.
  • Conclusion: not important for front-end developers currently.

Inspiration

Closing words

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