Investigate other Design Systems need for configuring GOV.UK Frontend

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What

Get in touch with the maintainers of the other government Design Systems to research how they need to configure GOV.UK Frontend.

Why

To better understand if we need to provide more features to the Design Systems around the configuration of GOV.UK Frontend.

Other Design Systems, like MoJ, MoD or HRMC configure GOV.UK Frontend in their stylesheets.

When including multiple design systems, this may lead to issues where:

• Sass compilation breaks because a module loaded with @forward is trying to be configured multiple times through @forward ... with
• Configuration is only changed in some of the included Design Systems, as only the code after the configuration is changed will receive the new values

Particularly, as Sass modules isolate each libraries from one another (where before GOV.UK Frontend's configuration was shared across the libraries), we need to know if there's more we need to do to coordinate configuration across the libraries.

Who needs to work on this

Developers, User researcher?

Who needs to review this

Developers, User researcher?

Done when

• We've researched what other Design Systems need from us in terms of configuration.
• We've created issues for further work