'Responsifying' with HTML, CSS & Angular
In December we started putting together a roadmap to make Medeo responsive for practitioners. The plan was sparked by 'secure messaging', a new feature that had recently been launched. Until then, the Medeo experience for care providers had strictly been limited to desktop. Messaging is almost inherently mobile, so we set out to build an MVP.
We decided that the majority of the work was to be done using CSS media queries; hiding features that we didn't need. We also ended up building some custom templates and adding one additional route for replying to a message. The decision making process could really be a post of its own, but we have used options in the past such as RESS that we didn’t find suitable for this feature
We knew that performance would be an issue with our initial MVP. There were many components being loaded in the background that we didn’t necessarily need. We held off on going the extra mile until we could validate usage. We also had higher business priorities arise. In the end I was pleased considering the amount of resources and time that went into building the feature.