[BoG S24] Special Topics Prerequisites and Titles (Frontend)

[yatharth-b]

Problem Description

We recently made some changes to support section-wise prerequisites and titles for special topics classes like ECON 4803. This means we have to update the frontend to display this new information. Reference the crawler-v2 repo and look at the types.ts file to look at the new output of the crawler.

Run the crawler locally and make the frontend read a local json file to test with the new data.

Your Goal

• Branch off main branch.
• Look at current code of prereqs in src/Components/Course/index.tsx and use the UI to see how it behaves.
• We want to keep the prereq button in the course action bar when all the sections have the same prereqs and in the Instructor component when all sections have different prereqs.
• Create a new function which compares all the prereqs of different sections for a given course and returns whether we need to keep the prereq button in the Instructor component or the Course component.
• In case of titles, display a title under the instructor's name if the title for a section is different than the title of the course and display 'Special Topics' where the title of the course is supposed to be.
• Similar to the behavior of the Course dropdowns, the Instructor component should only be expanded if the prereqs aren't expanded. (Behavior of course -

  website/src/components/Course/index.tsx

  Line 267 in 495bfa6

  {expanded && prereqOpen && prereqs !== null && (

  )