We’re targeting the sumac release and I’m trying to gather a list of resources for extending the platform without modifying the core codebase.
We have always cloned various Open edX repos (e.g. edx-platform, course-discovery, frontends) then added our own changes on top of a specific release branch.
Seeing that editing the core codebase has caused us many issues with making sure that the test cases pass and to avoid altering the core code, I noticed @lpm0073 blog articles explaining use of plugins to extend the platform for our own internal use.
Does edX have documentation on this too?
Django Plugins
I see this might be good for the backend (Django side).
XBlock Plugins
What about extending an existing XBlock (e.g. edx-ora2, qualtrics)? Do we use plugins for this or just make our own fork?
Frontend Plugins
What about plugins for the frontend-apps? How do we do this?
This looks promissing:
Hi @Zachary_Trabookis - could you take a spin through the frontend plugin docs I linked you and let me know how they are? I helped get them authored, but I’m not a frontend plugin developer. If there’s something missing from the docs, we’d love to know.