gstelang
9 years agoMentor
Access to Lithium custom component
Hi guys,
I have been developing on Lithium platform for a while and this has been bugging me. I have not got a definitive answer from anybody.
We don't have access to custom components Lithium has built for us. For example, the kudos.widget.authors-leaderboard is the custom component which is not viewable or editable in Studio Editor. We have some customization requirement that involves changing this component a little bit or removing some elements.
The problem is we have not been given access. Now, there're 2 solutions:
- Rebuild, which seems like a waste of engineering effort when we can just reuse what someone has already done for us. Rebuilding is also lot of work. Depending on the requirement, your work might involve fetching results from REST API + LiQL queries + HTML work + CSS styling.
- Tweak on top of what we have been given. If this is something smaller, targeted and makes sense, we can hack around with JQuery or CSS styles and make it look as per design. This is not really a good engineering practice and I don't want this to be a practice in my team.
Is this by design that we're not given access to certain components?
Thanks