Running Course Authoring MFE with tutor

Hey Ghassan!

No problem at all, it worked!!

Really appreciate the effort you put in.

We were actually following this because we wanted to enable the new discussions-mfe from here:

Even though we’ve made the author-mfe work, we had some “burning” questions:

  1. How did you know the names of the patches to work with (eg. openedx-cms-production-settings) in the plugin?
  2. How did you decide the port number as 4224, was this randomly selected?
  3. How did you know which waffle flags to create?
  4. Why did you name it as “author” in config.yml file, could it be anything else?

This is our (rough) roadmap for the discussions mfe based on your post:

  1. Make a new plugin called “discussions-mfe.py”
  2. Copy paste your plugin code and replace cms with lms , and “…/authors” with “…/discussions”
  3. enable discussions-mfe plugin
  4. rebuild mfe image
  5. local quickstart (just to be sure)

We really want to make the discussions mfe work (because the original seems straight out of 1995 i.e eye-sore), so we’d really appreciate if you could point us in the right direction.

PS: Thanks for the swift response that too on a Sunday.