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HuTasker

HuTasker is a sample site showing potential for integration between AirTable's API and Hugo, presented as a task tracker app

⚠️	HuTasker is currently in development and is not ready for production. We will post an update once it is ready for use as a template.

👩‍💻 Motivation

Static Site Generators (SSG) have great potential to build a dynamic site minus a lot of javascript bloat. This makes them quick to load, hugely configurable and able to be hosted anywhere.

A limitation to SSGs can be usability from a non-technical user perspective. There are multiple CMS options available, but all have setbacks and limitations.

This isn't meant to be a perfect solution, however I wanted to make some code public that has only been on private repos. The opportunity to use AirTable like a database was interesting (of course no CRUD). To get data on a CRON schecule (could be every minute) is a great way to make a static site seem dynamic thanks to a frequent build.

Possibilities

Could use airtable as a CMS, to manage blog posts (silly, but more user friendly for some people)
Visualise data effectively
Capture data in a landing page with embedded AirTable
Intranet for company info behind password protection

Limitations

It doesn't really make sense in a real life application due to so many factors. Some of which being:

Architecture chosen vs build times would cost a lot
Security is poor, with whole chuncks of files being downloaded without auth, filtering etc. (easy to copy data)
AirTable has its own limitations (only downloading a CSV -> needs to be transformed)

🌈 Features

Pulls Data from AirTable's API on a schedule (CRON with Github workflow), that can populate the pages
View the roadmap of features in the Project tab..