Note of Archival: After three gruesome years, they finally changed the reservation system to a usable one. This website is not needed any longer.

KIT Library Seat-Booking PWA

Motivation: the KIT website is bad

What this does:

When opening the index page, the different areas are displayed. Those are based on src/areas.config.js

Every AreaCard fetches some data from the KIT Server.
This creates a lot of requests (which I hope is fine)

API "Documentation"

• /api/fetch?area=<code> fetches the booking data for a given area (KIT Neubau 1.OG has code 20)
• /api/book?area=<area>&room=<seat-id>&period=<slot-id> basically redirects to KIT website
• /api/dummy_fetch?area=0 use this when testing (a lot quicker AND you don't spam the KIT servers)

Note: the /api/fetch endpoint uses the /api/dummy_fetch handler when NODE_ENV === 'development'

TODO

• Fix inconsistent (and sometimes straight up wrong) server time in /src/utils.js
• Implement all areas (build some ui for ungrouped areas)
• Do SEO and better enforce SSR and SSG with next
• Cache the fetch requests by default for ~60 seconds
• Explain to SCC why their servers get so many requests