Message Board Updates [Courses]

[JonEsparaz]

This issue primarily applies to courses, but the features updates can be applied to all message boards.

Threaded conversations:

• Add Reply table to schema
• One-to-many connection: Message to Reply (schema)
• One-to-many (recursive) connection: Reply to Reply (schema)
• Add reply button and client-side logic to handle replies
• Display conversation threads by indenting replies

Note: the Figma mockups suggest that replies only go three layers deep (i.e. top level message, replies to that message and replies to those replies), but a recursive connection will be used to maintain future flexibility.

Other updates:

• Implement infinite scroll
• Load messages incrementally
• Update styling and UI to better match mockups

[GeorgeBellTMH]

Sounds good! Can you also make a allowReplies="true|false" so we can disable it in cases where it doesn't make sense to have replies...

[GeorgeBellTMH]

Also, I think it might also not be clear in the design, but in some cases we have newest->oldest and some cases oldest->newest and top/bottom message input...

I think it also would be useful if we could have ability to have profileImage="big|small|none" and name="show|hover" and editorTools="show|hide" as there are times/places where we can hide some of that stuff....

[JonEsparaz]

Yes, I'll definitely add those props to the component.

[JonEsparaz]

Progress report: everything is mostly done - I did run into a couple unexpected issues.

Just testing and cleaning up the UI a bit. PR will be up on Monday by the latest.