The home page caught every fetch failure and rendered its empty state,
so a backend outage looked like a site with no schools in it. School
pages turned any error into notFound(), which told visitors — and
crawlers — that a real school had ceased to exist. Place fetches did the
same by returning [] and null. Failures now reach a retryable error
boundary; only a genuine 404 still calls notFound().
"Load more" and the map fetch resolved against whatever state existed
when they returned, so results from an abandoned search appended
themselves to the new ones. Each fetch now carries an AbortController
and checks that its search scope is still current before touching state.
The map only records its cache key on success, so a failed load retries
instead of pinning the stale marker set.
Jest ignored .next/, whose build output otherwise shadowed real suites.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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
