Missing Twitter card for profiles

[broskoski]

On jade rendered routes, we currently automatically populate twitter cards for the given page:

ervell/components/meta/templates/meta.jade

Line 37 in 37483bc

meta(name="twitter:card", content="summary_large_image")

After switching to React rendered profiles, these tags are no longer present. Check for cards here: https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator

After looking into this for ten minutes, I actually thought it would be preferable to make a field specifically for this in GraphQL (i.e. meta_images that would just return an array of images from the given profile.

Something else to consider is only rendering these meta tags for social bot / agents: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29261733/detect-social-bots-in-node-express

[dzucconi]

Ah when I looked at this I assumed we didn't have images for profiles. Yes I would write a custom node and return a single image for it. Why not avatar though?

[broskoski]

I think avatar is probably more logical, but it would probably just look shitty most of the time. To be clear we are talking about these cards:

[dzucconi]

Can you check if twitter cards invoke client-side code?

[broskoski]

Does not appear so: https://twittercommunity.com/t/support-for-dynamically-added-meta-tags/62862/3

[broskoski]

More context here: nfl/react-helmet#26

[dzucconi]

Right that's fine. I'd just add a node and add it.