(POC) feat: Add composable component support #228
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This spike replaces the hardcoded
instructionTextlogic with a more flexible composition pattern, letting components include other components via before and after properties.Sister PR DEFRA/forms-designer#1164
Changes
forms-model
• types.ts: Added
ComposableComponentinterface with before and after props; extendedComponentDefaccordingly• form-definition/index.ts: Updated schema to allow before and after (using Joi.any() for spike simplicity — recursive validation needed later)
forms-engine-plugin
•
ComposableComponentCollection.ts: New class extendingComponentCollectionto support before/after relationships•
component-renderer.ts: New helper for recursively rendering composable components while preserving type integrity•
QuestionPageController.ts: Detects composable components and switches toComposableComponentCollection, otherwise defaults to the regular collectionHow It Works
1. Components can define before and after subcomponents
2. Engine detects composable components and uses the enhanced collection
3. Rendering order: before → main → after
4. Fully backward compatible — existing forms continue to work