Portal Blocks

The vocabulary a customer portal page is built from — built-in ECP blocks and custom Spark blocks, side by side.

A customer portal page is composed of blocks, arranged in the ECP Portal Builder (the visual page-composition tool in ECP Settings). Two kinds of block render side by side on the same page:

  • Block (built-in) — developed inside the ECP codebase (end-customer-portal), configured in ECP Settings. Not built from this repo.
  • Custom block (also "Spark block") — an external web app embedded via iframe, built anywhere with @epilot/spark-ui + @epilot/spark-sdk. This is what this repo enables.

Building the app that fills a custom block's slot is a separate topic — see Build a block.

A few built-in blocks are reconstructed from spark-ui below, as a reference for what an equivalent custom block could look like: