Frontend fetching recommendations

[AndyRae]

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• Yes, I'm planning work for this project team.

Summary

The frontend needs to fetch suggestions from Lettuce, therefore the we need to add the api fetching, configuration, and models to do so.

API fetching is currently tightly coupled to the backend, but it would be useful to implement the same pattern, even with the same request function.

• So best to make this lib/api/request.ts function less tightly coupled with the existing backend.
• We can then add the same pattern for requests to lettuce api/recommendations.ts - getRecommendations function
• With corresponding types for a Recommendation(using the existing Concept type maybe?),
• This should be supported with a url config to pass the recommendation url to fetch from

Currently there is no authentication with this service - so we hold off on that until it is implemented.

Config Url:
recommendation_service_url

Acceptance Criteria

• Frontend has capability to fetch suggestions
• Tests pass.

Tasks

• Update request.ts to be less tightly coupled
• Add api fetch code
• Add suggestions types
• Add configuration for Lettuce url

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