feat!: migrate to frontend-base by arbrandes · Pull Request #1512 · openedx/frontend-app-authn

arbrandes · 2025-06-24T18:57:47Z

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In short, this refactors the codebase for frontend-base support. There are several breaking changes. It is a long-lived feature branch, and as such, should not be rebased or squashed until time comes for it to either merge to master or become master.

BREAKING CHANGE: Plugins written prior to this will need to be adapted to frontend-base syntax.

BREAKING CHANGE: refactors the MFE for frontend-base.

arbrandes · 2025-06-26T13:29:08Z

  it('renders Image layout when ENABLE_IMAGE_LAYOUT configuration is enabled', () => {
-    mergeConfig({
-      ENABLE_IMAGE_LAYOUT: true,
+    mergeSiteConfig({


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mergeSiteConfig({

mergeAppConfig(testAppId, {

arbrandes · 2025-06-26T13:30:21Z

+      {
+        path: '*',
+        element: (
+          <Navigate replace to={PAGE_NOT_FOUND} />
+        ),
+      }


Probably not a good idea having an app with a catch-all. This should be handled by the shell. (Thanks @bradenmacdonald for catching this.)

The only purpose of the included index.html is to serve the dev environment, so modify it to make that clear.

Apps should avoid having a catch-all route, instead relying on the shell to provide it.

Update package.json for publication as a "buildless" library. (Also upgrade openedx-atlas.)

feat: Prepare for publication to NPM

Now we have a way to discover app URLs dynamically; do so for the (default) redirect on login.

Bump frontend-base to alpha.4 to fix a bug with the route role redirection mechanism.

Bump frontend-base to avoid the inotify handle resource starvation.

BREAKING CHANGE: Pre-design-tokens theming is no longer supported.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

PasswordField is a shared component used across login, registration, and reset-password flows, but it was reaching directly into RegisterContext for validation state and callbacks. Replace context coupling with explicit props (validateField, clearRegistrationBackendError, validationApiRateLimited) passed by RegistrationPage, and remove the now-unused useRegisterContextOptional hook. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

When a user navigates to a protected SPA route while logged out, the authenticatedLoader redirects to /authn/login?next=%2Fsome-path. Previously, this relative next param was sent to the LMS backend, which resolved it against itself and returned an absolute LMS URL — causing a full page navigation away from the SPA shell. Now, when next starts with /, it is stripped from the API payload and handled locally: after login/registration succeeds, fetchAuthenticatedUser refreshes the auth cache so authenticatedLoader allows the target route, RedirectLogistration uses <Navigate> for SPA navigation, and hydrateAuthenticatedUser runs in the background to populate the full user profile (avatar, etc.) in the header. Also applies the same relative-path SPA navigation pattern to ProgressiveProfilingPageModal and replaces the hardcoded LMS dashboard fallback in the registration API with getUrlByRouteRole for consistency. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Routes are nested by default, but navigation constants used absolute paths like '/login', causing navigate() and <Navigate> to go to /login instead of /authn/login. Replace path constants in navigation calls with getUrlByRouteRole() where possible, which resolves the URL for a given route role from the route config. Path constants are still generally useful, but are now all relative (and camelCase). Centralize route roles, path segments, and the dashboard role in src/constants.ts. Last but not least, prefer SPA navigation (<Navigate>, useNavigate) over window.location.href where the target URL may be internal. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

When the backend returns the LMS dashboard URL as redirect_url after login or registration, replace it with getUrlByRouteRole(dashboardRole) so that RedirectLogistration can use <Navigate> for SPA navigation instead of a full page reload. Also hydrate the authenticated user before SPA navigation so the shell header displays the user's name. This applies the same fetchAuthenticatedUser/hydrateAuthenticatedUser pattern already used for the localNextPath flow to any redirect URL that starts with '/'. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

If the dashboard route role isn't registered, getUrlByRouteRole() returns undefined, breaking navigation. Fall back to '/' in all four call sites so the app degrades gracefully. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The formatjs formatter in @openedx/frontend-base now outputs flat KV JSON directly to src/i18n/transifex_input.json (as of alpha.16), so the separate i18n.concat step and its associated transifex-utils dependency are no longer needed. Bump @openedx/frontend-base peer dep to ^1.0.0-alpha.16 to require the version that includes this change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Add workspaces configuration and workspace-aware scripts for developing with local packages (such as frontend-base). Also, since npm skips bin-linking for workspace packages during install, do it when frontend-base is built. Part of openedx/frontend-base#184 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Adds `.releaserc` and a release GitHub Actions workflow, releasing from the `frontend-base` branch as a prerelease (`alpha`) to the `latest` dist-tag. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

openedx-semantic-release-bot · 2026-04-02T18:03:26Z

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

- Rename src/i18n/index.js → index.ts (project uses TypeScript) - Add src/i18n/messages.d.ts type stub so TypeScript is satisfied before translations:pull has been run - Remove src/i18n/messages.ts from git tracking (gitignored, generated) - Remove unused intl_imports and i18n Makefile variables - Remove detect_changed_source_translations Makefile target (unused by any CI workflow, extract_translations, or pull_translations) - Update package-lock to resolve @openedx/frontend-base to 1.0.0-alpha.23 Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

openedx-semantic-release-bot · 2026-04-09T13:20:49Z

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The old App.messages pattern included apps exporting their messages via \`src/index.ts\`. There is no reason for apps to export this. The file only exists so the app can run as a site with \`npm run dev\`. With frontend-base's i18n pipeline, translations are handled at the site level via \`site.i18n\`. App-only testing didn't catch this because the webpack fallback plugin correctly resolves the missing messages file when \`npm run dev\` is running the app as a site from the repo root (\`src/i18n/\` context). The broken export only surfaces when the compiled \`dist/\` is consumed by a site. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

openedx-semantic-release-bot · 2026-04-09T13:55:50Z

🎉 This PR is included in version 1.0.0-alpha.9 🎉

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

openedx-semantic-release-bot · 2026-04-10T18:00:54Z

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frontend-base now expects `roles: [role]` instead of `role: role` in route handle objects. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

openedx-semantic-release-bot · 2026-04-15T17:28:53Z

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The shell stylesheet moved from a SCSS file to a JS manifest at @openedx/frontend-base/shell/style. Imports it directly from site.config.dev.tsx and drops the now-redundant site.scss. Also fixes two @media queries in _base_component.scss that used a single-dash custom-media name and were silently non-matching. Refs openedx/frontend-base#232 Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

openedx-semantic-release-bot · 2026-04-22T15:40:13Z

🎉 This PR is included in version 1.0.0-alpha.12 🎉

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Adds a build-ci make target (exposed as npm run build:ci) that runs openedx build against site.config.dev.tsx, and wires it into the CI workflow after the existing tsc-based build step. Catches errors in the real app graph (e.g. broken imports in lazy-loaded routes) that neither tsc nor Jest would surface. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

refactor: migrate to frontend-base

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BREAKING CHANGE: refactors the MFE for frontend-base.

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refactor: migrate to frontend-base #1511

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Convert Authn to frontend-base #1498

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arbrandes added 22 commits June 26, 2025 19:27

test: fix a couple of tests

7c8051a

docs: remove reference to devstack

014a990

fix: update index.html

3d77880

The only purpose of the included index.html is to serve the dev environment, so modify it to make that clear.

fix: remove catch-all route

aea12a6

Apps should avoid having a catch-all route, instead relying on the shell to provide it.

chore: prepare for publication

6acbf64

Update package.json for publication as a "buildless" library. (Also upgrade openedx-atlas.)

refactor: use appId from constants

4dd5ddc

chore: clean up npmignore

18951cc

chore: gitignore npm pack artifacts

1ecdb0b

feat: handle authentication roles

033e0fd

chore: bump frontend-base

095b156

Merge pull request #1515 from arbrandes/frontend-base-fixes

762ff75

feat: Prepare for publication to NPM

v1.0.0-alpha.0

b811648

chore: bump frontend-base

f83f24a

1.0.0-alpha.1

7efa279

feat: redirect to route role on successful login

b6c659c

Now we have a way to discover app URLs dynamically; do so for the (default) redirect on login.

1.0.0-alpha.2

c98b9a1

fix: bump frontend-base

3252b59

Bump frontend-base to alpha.4 to fix a bug with the route role redirection mechanism.

1.0.0-alpha.3

967c52b

fix: work around inotify handle starvation

9a48fe3

Bump frontend-base to avoid the inotify handle resource starvation.

chore: bump frontend-base and regenerate package-lock

c602136

1.0.0-alpha.4

2d6b401

feat!: add design tokens support

49f42a8

BREAKING CHANGE: Pre-design-tokens theming is no longer supported.

arbrandes and others added 10 commits March 13, 2026 16:36

style: add explanatory comments for late imports after jest.mock()

1267024

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

refactor: simplify onSuccess redirect logic in login and registration

0cf13b3

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

build: add semantic-release for automated npm publishing

ffe7e18

Adds `.releaserc` and a release GitHub Actions workflow, releasing from the `frontend-base` branch as a prerelease (`alpha`) to the `latest` dist-tag. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

openedx-semantic-release-bot added the released on @latest label Apr 2, 2026

arbrandes force-pushed the frontend-base branch from 544d16b to ffe7e18 Compare April 2, 2026 18:17

brian-smith-tcril and others added 5 commits April 9, 2026 09:50

feat: add atlasTranslations to package.json

222a0af

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

feat: properly use openedx translations:pull

48d97e8

fix: pass ATLAS_OPTIONS through to translations:pull

3764889

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

chore: trigger release

80394d2

feat: provide chromeless roles to hide shell header and footer

b61a6f4

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

fix: use roles array in route handle config

104975f

frontend-base now expects `roles: [role]` instead of `role: role` in route handle objects. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

arbrandes and others added 2 commits April 22, 2026 12:39

chore: name the authn-main webpack chunk

d859ebf

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

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