Frontend
- Dynamic-import Chart.js components on detail/compare views so Chart.js
no longer ships in initial JS.
- Drop force-dynamic on home, compare, rankings so internal data fetches
reuse Next.js's per-call revalidate cache.
- Switch /school/[slug] to ISR with a 7-day revalidate window (school
data updates annually).
- Preconnect to analytics + postcodes.io; remove redundant defer on the
Umami Script tag (afterInteractive already covers it).
- Bump images.minimumCacheTTL to 1 year.
- Extract HowItWorks and Editorial sections as server components passed
to HomeView via slot props so their JSX stays out of the client bundle.
Backend
- Add GZipMiddleware (min 512 bytes).
- Add CacheAndETagMiddleware: per-path Cache-Control with long s-maxage
+ stale-while-revalidate, ETag generation, and 304 on If-None-Match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Backend builds sitemap.xml from school data at startup (in-memory)
- POST /api/admin/regenerate-sitemap refreshes it after data updates
- New Airflow DAG (sitemap_generate) runs Sundays 05:00 and calls the endpoint
- Next.js proxies /sitemap.xml to the backend; removes the slow dynamic sitemap.ts
- docker-compose passes BACKEND_URL + ADMIN_API_KEY to Airflow env
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The rewrite destination was using FASTAPI_URL directly, which
replaced the entire destination including the :path* parameter.
This caused /api/compare to rewrite to just http://backend:80/api
instead of http://backend:80/api/compare.
Now properly constructs: ${FASTAPI_URL}/:path*
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Migrate from vanilla JavaScript SPA to Next.js 16 with App Router
- Add server-side rendering for all pages (Home, Compare, Rankings)
- Create individual school pages with dynamic routing (/school/[urn])
- Implement Chart.js and Leaflet map integrations
- Add comprehensive SEO with sitemap, robots.txt, and JSON-LD
- Set up Docker multi-service architecture (PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Next.js)
- Update CI/CD pipeline to build both backend and frontend images
- Fix Dockerfile to include devDependencies for TypeScript compilation
- Add Jest testing configuration
- Implement performance optimizations (code splitting, caching)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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