This page serves as providing a current overview of the state of the frontend, and the ideas we have for the future.

Since the future design will differ quite a lot from the current design, this page will mainly serve as a placeholder until that time.

Current design

The current design of the core is one that has a lot of legacy design elements in it: There are new ideas (see below), however these are postponed for now.

The biggest design factor right now is the fact that the frontend of the entire system is still intertwined with the core, the frontend is in the same repository and same container as the core. Due to this it communicates differently with the core as it does with other micro services. Aside from that development is somewhat slowed down because of this.

The current design also still makes use of modules and module-pages, these things are solely left in for legacy purposes.

When working on something related to the core, one should take into account these upcoming changes.

Future design

In the future we want to have a full stand-alone frontend repository and container. It would have to communicate with the core as it would have to communicate with any other microservice. Additionally, the plan is to remove the concept of modules within microservices, and instead leave this option to the frontend / registery.

This page is largely based upon the following discussions that took place on JIRA:

GENERAL-84 - Getting issue details... STATUS  - Modules

GENERAL-85 - Getting issue details... STATUS  - Stand alone frontend