Spike: create an interface with the eventbrite API

[thegentlemanphysicist]

After digging into the eventbrite API and the BCDevExchange implementation, it's become clear that the integrating the API in a React app will not be completely straightforward. The query to the API requires a bearer token, if this is added to the react app ENV, it will be exposed to any user of the site.

Suggested approaches, research the following:

• server side rendering
• adding a cache to the site
• build a plugin for the strapi app that handles this (probably the most complicated)

[thegentlemanphysicist]

React env variable docs (check out the warning section) https://create-react-app.dev/docs/adding-custom-environment-variables/

Discussion in stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46838015/using-api-keys-in-a-react-app/46839021#46839021

[thegentlemanphysicist]

Strapi appears to have a configuration that might works for us. https://strapi.io/blog/webhooks

[thegentlemanphysicist]

https://strapi.io/documentation/developer-docs/latest/guides/external-data.html#content-type-settings This may be more relevant

[thegentlemanphysicist]

Resolved. Strapi can handle this. Moreover the eventbrite API has some webhook capabilities. We can leverage this to load the eventbrite content directly into strapi, improving load time of these features relative to the BCDevExchange site.

[SteveChapmanBCDX]

Reviewed issue - closing ticket.