The rendering split is dictated by CI building with no database.
/blog, /blog/rss.xml and /content-sitemap.xml have no dynamic params, so
Next prerenders them at build time and the build fails on a missing
Payload secret — caught here, not on staging. They are force-dynamic
instead: one indexed query against Postgres on the same Docker network,
and a newly published post appears immediately rather than waiting on a
revalidation. /blog/[slug] keeps ISR, because with no
generateStaticParams there is nothing to prerender; it is generated on
first request and cached, which is exactly what the collection's
afterChange hook exists to invalidate.
RichText takes `converters`, not `blocks`, in Payload 3.88, and the
default converters must be spread or every paragraph and heading loses
its renderer and the body comes out empty.
BlogPosting references the Person and Organization by @id rather than
repeating them, so every post and the About page resolve to one author
entity instead of declaring several people with the same name.
/sitemap.xml is proxied from FastAPI, which knows nothing about Payload,
so the Next-owned URLs get their own sitemap and robots.txt lists both.
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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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