docs(2021-04-13): frontend initiatives meeting minutes

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+When: April 13, 2021 @ 15:00 CET
+Where: Online
+Attending: Austin, Viktor, Bjørn, Christos, Debora, Edoardo, Ismay,
+Jan-Gerke, Joakim, Joe, Kai, Martin, Simona, Hendrik, Médi-Rémi,
+Jennifer, Jan Henrik, Birk
+
+# Agenda
+
+## Introductions!
+
+  - Welcome Simona!
+
+## Decisions
+
+### Standardize application file layout #248 
+
+Discussion: https://github.com/dhis2/notes/discussions/257
+
+Goal was unambiguous rules, difficult to define across all
+application sizes.
+
+Guidelines: 
+
+1. Have similar organisation strategies between all our apps
+2. Organise by-function, not by-type
+3. Avoid ambiguity (i.e. no conceptual overlap in folder names)
+4. Avoid generic folder names, and attempt to chose names that
+   immediately reveal what’s inside
+5. Accept that a project-structure is not a static thing you can
+   define up-front, the structure should evolve with the app
+
+Rules:
+
+1. Routes live under `src/pages`
+2. Components live under `src/components` and must only contain JSX
+   files
+
+Conclusion is that the 5 guidelines above and the 1 rule is adopted, and will be written up
+and documented.
+
+## Task Forces & Updates
+
+### PWA / Offline Caching
+
+Platform side is working on recording network calls, start and stopping.
+
+Analytics side is focusing on the dashboard app and aligning with the
+API that the platform will provide and what should be cached, and what
+should not be cached.
+
+### Continuous Delivery
+
+Over the next few weeks all our core apps are going to be uploaded to
+the App Hub.
+
+Need to update our release toolchain to publish to the App Hub as a
+semantic-release plugin.
+
+### Developer Outreach
+
+Good turn out for the developer meet ups on last Friday. The developer
+community is growing, and fun to see interaction between the community
+members.
+
+Joined Android and Webapp academy for advanced topics first week of May
+over the course of 4 days. Currently working on the agenda.
+
+Advanced topics like i18n, testing, and security.
+
+Collaborators needed, please reach out to Debora if you would like to
+present.
+
+If you don't want to present, you can help by producing guides for the
+developers.dhis2.org site.
+
+### PR Previews
+
+Got OK to use Netlify, ready to move ahead with this.
+
+Next step is to whitelist the PR urls, and setup the actions.
+
+### Large collections APIs
+
+Now that Platform is used for national installations with COVID
+vaccinations we are hitting restrictions in terms of option sets with
+tens of thousands of options, that are difficult to manage given
+restrictions in the API.
+
+Backend is working on:
+
+-   Partial update support. JSON Patch specification is being
+    implemented.
+
+-   New Gist API is worked on that will be a more performant variant that
+    doesn't return all the nested collections. Will contain a suite of
+    queries and selectors to help when asking for data.
+
+### Others?
+
+#### cli-utils-docsite
+
+Feature in docsite to use react-docgen.
+