fix(frontend): proxy /api and /sitemap.xml at runtime, not via baked rewrites

next.config.js rewrites() bakes its destination into the build
(routes-manifest.json), capturing FASTAPI_URL at build time. Because one
frontend image is promoted staging->prod, the baked backend host forced
every environment to name the backend service identically; staging names
it 'backend_stg', so the browser's /api/* calls proxied to the baked
'http://backend' and failed with getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND backend. (SSR was
unaffected because lib/api.ts reads FASTAPI_URL at runtime.)

Replace the rewrites with route handlers that read FASTAPI_URL per
request:
- app/api/[...path]/route.ts — transparent proxy for all methods, streams
  the response, strips hop-by-hop headers, and returns 502 on upstream
  failure instead of crashing.
- app/sitemap.xml/route.ts — proxies the backend sitemap (robots.ts points
  crawlers here).

The same promoted image now adapts to whatever the backend is called in
each environment. Verified: production build succeeds with /api/[...path]
and /sitemap.xml as dynamic routes and an empty rewrites manifest.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

nextjs-app/Dockerfile

@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@ COPY . .
 ENV NEXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1
 ENV NODE_ENV=production
 
-# Build argument for FastAPI URL (used by Next.js rewrites at build time)
+# Default backend URL for any server-side fetch during `next build`. The
+# runtime /api proxy reads FASTAPI_URL per request (see app/api/[...path]),
+# so the deployed container's env is what actually routes traffic.
 ARG FASTAPI_URL=http://backend:80/api
 ENV FASTAPI_URL=${FASTAPI_URL}
 

nextjs-app/app/api/[...path]/route.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+/**
+ * Runtime proxy for /api/* → the FastAPI backend.
+ *
+ * This replaces the old next.config.js `rewrites()` proxy, whose destination
+ * was baked into the build (routes-manifest.json) from FASTAPI_URL at build
+ * time. Because one frontend image is promoted staging→prod, a baked hostname
+ * forced every environment to name the backend identically; a mismatch (e.g.
+ * a `backend_stg` service) produced `getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND backend`.
+ *
+ * A route handler reads process.env.FASTAPI_URL on each request, so the same
+ * image adapts to whatever the backend is called in each environment.
+ */
+
+import { type NextRequest, NextResponse } from 'next/server';
+
+export const dynamic = 'force-dynamic';
+export const runtime = 'nodejs';
+
+// FASTAPI_URL already includes the `/api` suffix (e.g. http://backend:80/api).
+function backendBase(): string {
+  return process.env.FASTAPI_URL || process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL || 'http://localhost:8000/api';
+}
+
+// Hop-by-hop / length headers must not be copied across a proxy — undici has
+// already decoded the body, so a stale content-encoding/length corrupts it.
+const STRIPPED_RESPONSE_HEADERS = ['content-encoding', 'content-length', 'transfer-encoding', 'connection'];
+const METHODS_WITH_BODY = new Set(['POST', 'PUT', 'PATCH', 'DELETE']);
+
+async function handler(req: NextRequest, ctx: { params: Promise<{ path: string[] }> }) {
+  const { path } = await ctx.params;
+  const target = `${backendBase()}/${path.join('/')}${req.nextUrl.search}`;
+
+  const headers = new Headers(req.headers);
+  headers.delete('host');
+  headers.delete('connection');
+
+  const init: RequestInit & { duplex?: 'half' } = {
+    method: req.method,
+    headers,
+    redirect: 'manual',
+    cache: 'no-store',
+  };
+  if (METHODS_WITH_BODY.has(req.method)) {
+    init.body = req.body;
+    init.duplex = 'half';
+  }
+
+  let upstream: Response;
+  try {
+    upstream = await fetch(target, init);
+  } catch (err) {
+    // e.g. DNS failure or connection refused — surface a clean 502 instead of
+    // an opaque proxy crash so callers can degrade gracefully.
+    return NextResponse.json({ detail: 'Upstream request failed' }, { status: 502 });
+  }
+
+  const responseHeaders = new Headers(upstream.headers);
+  for (const h of STRIPPED_RESPONSE_HEADERS) responseHeaders.delete(h);
+
+  return new NextResponse(upstream.body, {
+    status: upstream.status,
+    statusText: upstream.statusText,
+    headers: responseHeaders,
+  });
+}
+
+export {
+  handler as GET,
+  handler as HEAD,
+  handler as POST,
+  handler as PUT,
+  handler as PATCH,
+  handler as DELETE,
+  handler as OPTIONS,
+};

nextjs-app/app/sitemap.xml/route.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/**
+ * Runtime proxy for /sitemap.xml → the FastAPI backend's generated sitemap.
+ *
+ * Like the /api/* proxy, this reads FASTAPI_URL at request time rather than
+ * baking the backend host into the build, so one image works in every
+ * environment. robots.ts points crawlers here.
+ */
+
+import { NextResponse } from 'next/server';
+
+export const dynamic = 'force-dynamic';
+export const runtime = 'nodejs';
+
+function backendOrigin(): string {
+  const base = process.env.FASTAPI_URL || process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL || 'http://localhost:8000/api';
+  return base.replace(/\/api$/, '');
+}
+
+export async function GET() {
+  let upstream: Response;
+  try {
+    upstream = await fetch(`${backendOrigin()}/sitemap.xml`, { cache: 'no-store' });
+  } catch {
+    return new NextResponse('Sitemap temporarily unavailable', { status: 502 });
+  }
+
+  const body = await upstream.text();
+  return new NextResponse(body, {
+    status: upstream.status,
+    headers: { 'content-type': upstream.headers.get('content-type') || 'application/xml' },
+  });
+}

nextjs-app/next.config.js

@@ -3,21 +3,10 @@ const nextConfig = {
   // Enable standalone output for Docker
   output: 'standalone',
 
-  // API Proxy to FastAPI backend
-  async rewrites() {
-    const apiUrl = process.env.FASTAPI_URL || 'http://localhost:8000/api';
-    const backendUrl = apiUrl.replace(/\/api$/, '');
-    return [
-      {
-        source: '/api/:path*',
-        destination: `${apiUrl}/:path*`,
-      },
-      {
-        source: '/sitemap.xml',
-        destination: `${backendUrl}/sitemap.xml`,
-      },
-    ];
-  },
+  // The /api/* and /sitemap.xml proxies to the FastAPI backend are route
+  // handlers (app/api/[...path]/route.ts, app/sitemap.xml/route.ts) rather
+  // than rewrites, so the backend host is read from FASTAPI_URL at runtime
+  // instead of being baked into the build.
 
   // Image optimization
   images: {