Prefetching section information

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Currently, I am only fetching overall course info (number, title, description, lecture type), and a list of sections (term code and CRN)

export interface Course {
  // No term for courses. Terms are only required for sections
  subject: string;
  number: string;
  scheduleType: string;
  title: string;
  credits: number;
  nuPath: NUPath[];
  description?: string;

  sections: {
    term: string;
    crn: string;
  }[];
}

Should professor information also be added to the list of sections?

Yes because

• it will allow to search for courses by professor (search is currently slow, but that's another issue)
• The course page will load faster: no need to make an API call to view a list of professors teaching that course

No because

• search is already slow and adding another field to search through will make it even slower (maybe make a search API for this?)
• sections can be added/change during the semester, so the data will become outdated

Leaning towards yes if

• search can be improved
• use getStaticProps to get possible stale data, then update it with React Query