Creating a starter project

You are reading the NextGen Documentation

NextGen widgets are a new and improved way to display UGC content onsite.

From September 23rd 2025, all new widgets created will be NextGen.

Please check your widget version on the Widget List page to see if it is a Classic or NextGen widget.

You can read the Classic Widget Documentation here.

Note: This feature is unique to NextGen widgets

Starter project activity

This project has been created with the sole purpose of:

1. Allowing you to see what is possible with widgets

2. A space for you to follow the activity provided to learn about how you can customise widgets with ease

What you will learn

1. How to adjust styles for inline tiles & expanded tiles

2. How to adjust templates for inline tiles & expanded tiles.

3. How to hook into emitted events

4. How to apply dynamic css variables

Getting started with the activity

• You will notice this widget is bouncing. Please stop the circle from bouncing.

• Why is the widget in a circle? Please remove the circle and ensure it is in a grid format, covering the entire screen.

• The border of the circle is based on the mood given to the method. Please update it so that it is using 'nosto' mood with a pink border to represent Nosto.

• Every time I expand a tile, a dog appears. Please change this to the actual tile image.

• Every time an event is emitted, a toast message appears, please remove this.

A successful attempt at this activity will be something like the following.

Answers:

• To stop the circle from bouncing, remove @keyframes bounce { } in extras.scss

• To remove the circle, remove the border-radius property in extras.scss

• To update the border color to the Nosto mood, update the "--my-mood-border" variable in the widget.tsx file.

• To change the dog image to the actual tile image, update the tile.template file to instead use the tile.image property.

• To remove the toast message, remove the eventListener in widget.tsx