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feat(ci): gate promotion on the image set that actually passed E2E
Staging health polling asked only whether something answered HTTP 200 at
the base URL. It could not tell the new deployment from the old one, so
journeys could pass against the previous release, and concurrent merges
could move the staging tags underneath a run in flight.

Each staging run now mints a build ID and stamps all three images with
the commit and that ID, as labels and — for frontend and backend — as a
build-time JSON file that environment overrides cannot rewrite.
/release.json reports both identities uncached, and scripts/ci/release.py
polls for the expected pair before and after the journeys. Only then are
the captured build digests tagged verified-<sha>.

Promotion resolves those verified tags to immutable digests, revalidates
their labels, and refuses a mixed or incomplete set before any :prod tag
moves. The whole staging workflow shares one concurrency group with
cancellation disabled, so releases serialise.

The scripts are stdlib-only and unit-tested against mocked registry and
HTTP behaviour; PR checks now run the pipeline and CI suites too. The
runbook records what this cannot prove locally, and that the first
rollout needs a commit built by this workflow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 10:17:50 +01:00
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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.