Northeastern-Electric-Racing / Northeastern-Electric-Racing/FinishLine

Loading Error on BOM Tab on Project Page When User is a Guest

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Description

Description

Right now, when a guest goes to the bom tab on an individual project page, the page displays an error. This is because guests cannot hit certain get all endpoints in our backend (e.g. get all units). To solve this, you should only display an error page for those fetches from the backend if the guest isn't a user.

Acceptance Criteria
  • The bom tab on a project no longer errors when you pull it up as a guest
  • All other functionality is unaffected
Proposed Solution

You'll need to learn how we use hooks to retrieve info from the backend to understand this one. It's also worth looking at the finance page because we do a similar thing where we don't display an error page for certain things if you're not on the finance team.

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Research direction

Start at the BOM tab on the project page and trace the hooks that fetch backend data for a guest. Compare the finance page's handling of restricted fetches, then verify that guest users see the BOM tab without an error while other functionality remains unaffected.

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Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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