Setup CMS

[ColinMcNeil]

Content management has to be setup via directus

[gluxon]

Here's the production endpoint: https://admin.squaredlabs.uconn.edu

[ColinMcNeil]

DM me the credentials

[gluxon]

@Nexuist Can you setup accounts for Colin and I?

[gluxon]

the site will only reflect CMS changes after it gets re-compiled, aka, if any new commits get pushed to the repo. Is this okay? I was thinking about it and it sounds like a bit of a pain every time you make a change in directus, you have to clone the repo, make a change, push it, and merge the branch in order to simply update the content. --Colin

Yeah, that's not good. ---Dan

@ColinMcNeil @Nexuist There's two ways to solve @dschwartz's use case.

• If we want the site to automatically update with changes, we can go back to SPA mode.
• Alternatively, you could use Directus API hooks. Make sure to have a debounce though. (5 minutes probably reasonable.) So we don't have drone builds firing every time someone makes a change on the CMS.

[ColinMcNeil]

#78

getAsyncData is fired before page rendered and will work fine with SSR. If you're worried about too many api calls we can do what Jerry said for my senior design project and make it a %chance to update on page load.

[gluxon]

getAsyncData is fired before page rendered and will work fine with SSR.

I'm not saying there's issues with using getAsyncData and server side rendering. I'm proposing two solutions to the use-case Dan wanted. getAsyncData solves a different problem with building the site based off of information in our Directus instance. There's a separate problem with getting builds to happen when information in our Directus instance is updated.

[ColinMcNeil]

I'm suggesting we pull from the directus API in getAsyncData.
https://github.com/SquaredLabs/squaredlabs.uconn.edu/blob/develop/directus.js
I was planning on making it a module like: export default startLoad() and then
calling that function in getAsyncData so that it generated the JSON files each time.

I just am not sure how often it will call getAsyncData. Every page load? If that's the case then give it a 10% chance to pull the data perhaps.

[ColinMcNeil]

getAsyncData is all set. Waiting on #82 , but after that we can resolve this.