Drafts are on so a post can be written across sittings without saving
being publishing.
afterChange and afterDelete revalidate every path a post appears on.
Blog pages are ISR because CI builds with no database, so without these
a published post would not appear until the revalidate window expired —
up to an hour of a writer concluding that publishing is broken. Payload
runs in the same process as Next, so these are direct revalidatePath
calls with no webhook and no shared secret.
Media writes to an absolute /app/media matching the compose mount; a
mismatch would write into the container filesystem, where the next
redeploy silently discards it. Alt text is required rather than
optional.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017YmbBhr8s7GusjDE12hrZM
Payload 3.88 runs inside the Next app against the existing Postgres, in
its own 'payload' schema so no pipeline operation on public — the app
tables, Airflow's metadata, migrate_csv_to_db.py --drop — can reach blog
content.
Its REST API is mounted at /cms-api. /api is the FastAPI proxy's
catch-all, which would swallow every admin call and forward it to the
backend with no error. The mount points live in lib/payloadRoutes.ts so
there is one definition and a test can assert it without importing
Payload: it is ESM-only, next/jest will not transform it, and appending
transformIgnorePatterns cannot un-ignore a package. Forcing it through
transpilePackages would change how the production build bundles Payload
to serve a test, so the live proof that /api still reaches FastAPI stays
where it belongs — the e2e journeys, which call /api/schools.
The package becomes ESM ("type": "module"), which Payload's CLI requires:
richtext-lexical has top-level await and the config cannot be require()d.
Only two files needed renaming, jest.config.cjs and a build script.
The build is verified to succeed with DATABASE_URL and PAYLOAD_SECRET
both unset, which is how CI builds it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017YmbBhr8s7GusjDE12hrZM
