Overhaul team page about hackutd-site

[harshasrikara]

We do intend to have a full fledged "profile" page for the ACM Website. Users can login, add their own social media links, resumes and more directly without having a developer as a middle-man. The back-end code for this is already setup to create user profiles & have collections to store officer information for divisions and much more.

[WillieCubed]

Well, that makes HackUTD job's easier! Will the static site generator for the HackUTD website will be able to use this officer information as via API? Also, I'm wondering how this will work with static site generation as changes won't be propagated in real-time (that's the current and desired architecture for the site). Are there webhooks that can be triggered when officers update their information?

[harshasrikara]

Its possible to have changes propogate in real-time even with a static website on gitpages. Firestore client libraries for web allow for realtime listeners to connect directly, its quite amazing. Although tbh im not sure real time is quite necessary because the changes are going to be few and far between. An alternative option is to just have an apicall run onpage load to retrieve relevant information. I'm not sure that this is always a viable option because the ACM Api is secured to only allow authenticated requests to pass through but perhaps we can make an exception for requests originating from www.hackutd.co. Lots of options to explore.