Unbury Photosynthesis

[waldoj]

Even if somebody starts tracking bills, the whole thing is hidden. Seems to me that There should be there should be something in the UI to highlight that one's bills have advanced in some way. Given that there's an API endpoint for Photosynthesis, and given that users have a cookie set with that portfolio ID, the infrastructure is there to do this.

Acceptance criteria

• [x] a UI element is present on the most-trafficked pages (ideally, all pages) that links to a person's own Photosynthesis portfolio
• [ ] the UI element changes its appearance when there is news about one of those bills, in a way that makes its meaning clear to a reasonable person
• [x] the API calls generated by this element do not unduly burden the API
• [x] the sidebar does not show up on /photosynthesis/*

[waldoj]

This is the path forward, I think:

• [x] modify the API to include in the output some information about each bill—catch line, most recent status change, timestamp of last update
• [ ] create new Javascript functionality to store information about all tracked bills in localstorage
• [ ] create new Javascript functionality to retrieve API data, compare it to localstorage data, and output HTML of a portfolio's status
• [x] style a DIV to be populated with this HTML, which is visible in some minimal way, including a visual indicator of whether there is anything new in those bills, that can be maximized via interaction

[waldoj]

I've been putting together backend functionality, but I think a good next step is to HTML-wireframe the front-end view, and then ensure that we have the necessary data and methods to support that functionality.

[waldoj]

I've been putting together backend functionality, but I think a good next step is to HTML-wireframe the front-end view, and then ensure that we have the necessary data and methods to support that functionality.