Hi everyone, I’m a new member of the OpenMRS team and have been working with @burke, @dkayiwa, and @jdick to get up-to-speed on the current system and to discuss options and a proposal for a modular frontend.
I shared a few slides a few days ago with them that has some frontend topics to discuss and early proposal of the direction that a modular frontend could go. I will be presenting these topics on 29 April in the Design Forum called Modular Frontend Architecture for OpenMRS.
RFC Additionally, I’ve talked with Burke about potentially creating an RFC github repo for a modular frontend. RFC is an acronym for Request For Comments (see https://github.com/vuejs/rfcs and https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/ for examples), and it is a mechanism the open source world sometimes employs for far-reaching technical decisions.
Question for the group - What does everyone think of using an RFC as a mechanism for driving collaboration and decisions for a modular frontend? If so, I would transfer the information in the slides below to a github repo and pull requests, for everyone to see and comment on. I’m new here, though, and don’t want to start out trying to change things in my first couple weeks, so if sticking to discussions here on Talk would be better, let’s do that.
Link to some slides - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sv0n_15Zp9HNusdSagOXnBO7Kbh2qURMQj3a8OR8ndo/edit#slide=id.p – these slides are meant to set to the stage for discussions, not to represent decisions that are made. I am an experienced frontend web dev and have implemented large software systems before, but do not yet have the context of OpenMRS, nor the relationships with everyone here. I do not want this to feel like an outsider coming in and making decisions without collaborating with everyone – so feel free to comment, disagree, reach out to me directly, or anything else. The purpose of the slides is to drive collaboration 