TudorandClaude Opus 5
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Reported from staging: a Catholic primary showed six Catholic primaries, none of them close enough to be a real option, and omitted the community school down the road. Three causes, compounding. Ranking put tier before distance, so a faith match at 2.9 miles outranked a community school at 0.3. The ENOUGH=3 stopping rule — added so a cap of six would not drag in weak distant matches — filled the row from the best tier before it ever widened, which is what made every card Catholic. And a 3-mile tier-1 radius is sane for a secondary and most of a city for a primary, whose catchments are routinely under a mile. The premise was backwards. For a parent, distance is a constraint and intake is a preference; a school beyond a primary catchment is not a weaker option, it is not an option. So distance now decides the order and nothing else does. The hard filters are untouched — they were always where the defensibility lived. Similarity survives as chips on the card: reported, so a reader applies their own weighting, rather than ranked, so we apply ours for them. Reach is capped per phase (primary 2, secondary 6, post-16 10) as a sanity bound, not a target: ordering already handles density, so the cap only decides what happens where an area is sparse. A primary with nothing inside two miles now renders no section, which is the honest answer. Deleted: the tier system, the stopping rule, the tier-dependent lede, the `tier` field, the tier-3 fallback chip and its style. select_similar also stops taking is_secondary — it reads the phase from the subject's own row, so no caller can hand it one that disagrees with the data. The heading is now "Other schools nearby". The hard filters still guarantee a comparable set, but nothing ranks on likeness, so the heading no longer says it does. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SchoolCompare frontend and CMS
Next.js App Router with React, TypeScript, CSS Modules, Chart.js, Leaflet and Payload CMS. It serves school search, comparisons, rankings, school/place detail pages and editorial content across England.
Start with the repository overview, architecture and development checks.
Source map
| Path | Purpose |
|---|---|
app/(frontend)/ |
Public root layout, server pages and FastAPI proxy |
app/(payload)/ |
Payload root layout, /admin and /cms-api |
app/robots.ts, app/opengraph-image.tsx, root icons |
Site-wide metadata endpoints |
components/ |
Client views and reusable display components |
components/school/ |
School detail sections |
lib/api.ts, lib/types.ts |
Fetch wrappers and manual school API types |
lib/schoolSections.ts, lib/compareLogic.ts |
Presentation decisions and data preparation |
context/, hooks/ |
Comparison state, suggestion state and responsive behaviour |
collections/, blocks/, migrations/ |
CMS schema and production migrations |
__tests__/ |
Jest and React Testing Library tests |
Do not introduce a shared app/layout.tsx: public pages and Payload have separate
root layouts. Keep root metadata files outside the route groups.
Data and state
Server pages fetch initial data directly from FASTAPI_URL. Browser fetches use
/api by default, forwarded by app/(frontend)/api/[...path]/route.ts.
FASTAPI_URL must include /api. See .env.example for CMS and API settings.
State uses React hooks/context, URL search parameters and localStorage for the comparison basket. SWR is not installed. Maps use dynamic Leaflet wrappers. Revalidation intervals are configured in fetch wrappers and pages; they vary by resource. Backend reloads do not automatically invalidate every Next.js cache.
Commands
npm ci
npm run typecheck
npm test -- --runInBand
npm run build
test:watch and test:coverage are also available. There is no lint script.
A running application needs the backend/data environment described in the
development guide.
After CMS field or editor changes, run npm run generate:importmap. Keep
payload-types.ts generated from the CMS schema rather than editing it by hand.
The build must work without a database connection; avoid module-scope CMS queries
and DB-backed generateStaticParams functions.
See publishing for CMS operations and deployment for staging and production promotion.