Feature: Airtable RSVP

[thchia]

Cleaned this up a bit

• RSPV data will be recorded in Airtable
  • Name, Github Username is requested from the site
• Airtable plugin is used to query for attendee data for display. Currently this is just the total number, until we implement a toggle for people to hide their profiles from display.
• Signing up is done through a Netlify function which inserts the data into Airtable.
• As of this commit, local development will require an Airtable API key.

Note that although Netlify functions exist in different environments (like deploy previews), we only have one airtable.. table. So we should think about how to not anyhow insert into there (like when you are doing local development)

[wgao19]

I think for now we can still display this but put a caption to ask people to put down "react-knowledgeable" in their GitHub handle if they do not want to display their attendance. This way we still get the RSVP but we show our own avatar.

[thchia]

Actually, before we implement the Github OAuth, people can just leave the username field empty. Then we won't know it and hence won't show their avatar.

[wgao19]

hmm, I am slightly leaning towards having GitHub OAuth for sign in land together with this PR then.

[wgao19]

• for the option to hide attendance, let's simplify down to displaying our own avatar (the handle is react-knowledgeable) when people don't want to display their own, then we can display the list of avatars
• let's use that one airtable table for development for now, in case we need more for testing in the future, we create a new table for testing, or we mock at netlify functions, depending on what we iterate on

[thchia]

• Instead of asking them to put react-knowledgeable as the username, we can interpret empty username as that. So for empty usernames we show the RK avatar?
• Agreed, probably mock in the function code.

[wgao19]

Instead of asking them to put react-knowledgeable as the username, we can interpret empty username as that. So for empty usernames we show the RK avatar?

Yah good point, can.

[wgao19]

Updates:

• implement Put a calendar link after RSVP #82, this is a link where people can copy to their calendar
• add a caption about how to hide attendance

Regarding this

Instead of asking them to put react-knowledgeable as the username, we can interpret empty username as that. So for empty usernames we show the RK avatar?

I feel making it apparently optional would make it much less likely for people to put down their GH handle, which we rely on to get avatars. We can still interpret empty input as react-knowledgeable, but we tell people to put it down anyway just for the behavior.

In the long run let's still try to replace this with GitHub auth.

[thchia]

LGTM, let's cut this draft 🕹