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school_compare/nextjs-app/app/(frontend)/page.tsx
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/**
* Home Page (SSR)
* Main landing page with school search and browsing
*/
import { absoluteUrl } from '@/lib/site';
import type { Metadata } from 'next';
import { fetchSchools, fetchFilters, fetchDataInfo } from '@/lib/api';
import { DEFAULT_RADIUS_MILES, formatAcademicYear } from '@/lib/utils';
import { HomeView } from '@/components/HomeView';
import { getFlags } from '@/lib/flags';
import { HowItWorksSection } from '@/components/HowItWorksSection';
import { EditorialSection } from '@/components/EditorialSection';
interface HomePageProps {
searchParams: Promise<{
search?: string;
local_authority?: string;
school_type?: string;
phase?: string;
page?: string;
postcode?: string;
radius?: string;
sort?: string;
gender?: string;
admissions_policy?: string;
has_sixth_form?: string;
faith?: string;
}>;
}
/*
* `title` was the bare string 'Home', which is what the browser tab, the
* bookmark and the search result all read. `absolute` opts out of the root
* layout's "%s | schoolcompare" template so the homepage doesn't end up
* saying the brand twice.
*/
export const metadata: Metadata = {
/*
* Intent in the title, differentiator in the description.
*
* These queries are owned by the DfE's own "Compare school performance"
* service, and the old title — brand first, then a near-paraphrase of that
* service's name — gave a searcher no reason to pick us over it. It drew
* 0.43% CTR at position 6.1 while the brand query drew 9.16% from the same
* neighbourhood, so the ranking was never the problem.
*
* The title now matches what people type. The description carries the one
* fact gov.uk does not publish: how close you had to live to get a place.
*/
title: { absolute: 'Compare Schools Side by Side | schoolcompare' },
description:
'Put five English schools on one screen: SATs, GCSE results, Ofsted grades, and how close you had to live to get a place. Free, no sign-up.',
// This page reads eleven search params. They filter a result set; they do
// not make a new document. Collapsing every combination onto "/" stops the
// homepage competing with itself for its own head terms.
alternates: { canonical: absoluteUrl('/') },
};
// The page reads searchParams, which makes rendering dynamic by default.
// We don't use `force-dynamic` here so the internal filter/data-info fetches
// can still hit Next.js's data cache (configured per-call in lib/api.ts).
export default async function HomePage({ searchParams }: HomePageProps) {
// Await search params (Next.js 15 requirement)
const params = await searchParams;
// Server-read: no flag value reaches the browser bundle. Threaded down to
// both FilterBar instances via HomeView.
const flags = await getFlags();
const autosuggest = flags.school_autosuggest === true;
// Parse search params
const page = parseInt(params.page || '1');
// Without this the API applies its own 5-mile default while the Distance
// control shows DEFAULT_RADIUS_MILES.
const radius = params.radius ? parseFloat(params.radius) : DEFAULT_RADIUS_MILES;
// Check if user has performed a search
const hasSearchParams = !!(
params.search ||
params.local_authority ||
params.school_type ||
params.phase ||
params.postcode ||
params.gender ||
params.admissions_policy ||
params.has_sixth_form ||
params.faith
);
// Failures propagate to the retryable error boundary.
const [filtersData, dataInfo] = await Promise.all([fetchFilters(), fetchDataInfo().catch(() => null)]);
// Only fetch schools if there are search parameters
let schoolsData;
if (hasSearchParams) {
schoolsData = await fetchSchools({
search: params.search,
local_authority: params.local_authority,
school_type: params.school_type,
phase: params.phase,
postcode: params.postcode,
radius,
page,
page_size: 50,
gender: params.gender,
admissions_policy: params.admissions_policy,
has_sixth_form: params.has_sixth_form,
faith: params.faith,
});
} else {
// Empty state by default
schoolsData = { schools: [], page: 1, page_size: 50, total: 0, total_pages: 0 };
}
const resolvedFilters = filtersData || { local_authorities: [], school_types: [], years: [], phases: [], genders: [], admissions_policies: [] };
// `unique_schools`, not `total_schools` — the latter is not a field this
// endpoint returns, and reading it silently yielded null on every request.
const total = dataInfo?.unique_schools ?? null;
const years = dataInfo?.years_available ?? [];
return (
<HomeView
autosuggest={autosuggest}
initialSchools={schoolsData}
filters={resolvedFilters}
totalSchools={total}
howItWorks={hasSearchParams ? null : <HowItWorksSection />}
editorial={hasSearchParams ? null : (
<EditorialSection
totalSchools={total}
localAuthorityCount={resolvedFilters.local_authorities.length}
earliestYearLabel={years.length ? formatAcademicYear(years[0]) : null}
latestYearLabel={years.length ? formatAcademicYear(years[years.length - 1]) : null}
/>
)}
/>
);
}