Setting up local environment with tutor and MFE

[marko.lalic.se (Marko Lalic)]

Hello there,

I’m new in Open Edx world. I’m trying to setup MFE with tutor (https://docs.tutor.edly.io/) on my local machine and it’s not working for some reason, trying to troubleshot why. My tutor instance when it starts and I got to account, it doesn’t open the accounts page that I installed locally. These are the steps that I did:

• Installed tutor with MFE plugin

• Cloned repo for account: GitHub - openedx/frontend-app-account: Open edX micro-frontend application for managing user account information. and did npm i & npm start

• Account page starts in the console without errors, but when going to http://localhost:1997/ it show page that error occurred and there is a button to reload page.

• On the tutor side I changed these two variables:
  tutor config save --set ACCOUNT_MICROFRONTEND_URL=‘http://localhost:1997/’
  tutor config save --set ENABLE_ACCOUNT_MICROFRONTEND=‘true’
  Also, for site config I have this:
  {
  “ENABLE_ACCOUNT_MICROFRONTEND”: true
  }
  and Waffle flag is set to enabled: account.redirect_to_microfrontend

I’m using Windows as OS. Let me know if you need more info about this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[marko.lalic.se (Marko Lalic)]

I tried changing MFE_HOST config but then I broke whole website None of the pages couldn’t load after that.

Changed from:
tutor config save --set MFE_HOST=‘apps.local.edly.io’
To:
tutor config save --set MFE_HOST=‘localhost:1997’

[dcoa (Diana Olarte)]

Hi, @marko.lalic.se

To work in dev mode with a custom MFE you can follow these instructions GitHub - overhangio/tutor-mfe: This plugin makes it possible to easily add micro frontend (MFE) applications on top of an Open edX platform that runs with Tutor.

In summary, you need to bind-mount account MFE, rebuild the dev image, and start the environment.

[marko.lalic.se (Marko Lalic)]

Thank you for the quick response. I’ll try this.

[sarina (Sarina Canelake)]

Also note from Installing Tutor — Tutor documentation :

• Supported OS: Tutor runs on any 64-bit, UNIX-based OS. It was also reported to work on Windows (with WSL 2).

Best of luck with Windows, but we may not be able to assist if you run into thorny issues.