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The admissions card measured 1503px on a live school page — half the height of every section put together, and nearly three times the next largest — with its default view rendering as four tiles adrift in about 1080px of blank card. The cause was a layout trick meeting content it was never sized for. The admissions views are stacked in one grid cell so switching them never shifts layout, and the hidden ones keep their box: only visibility is dropped. That works while the views are comparable. The distance view added in #102 carries a chart, a table and a map, came to 1402px against the tile grid's 316px, and pinned every other view to its height — including the one that renders by default, which nobody had clicked. Rather than only unpinning it, the detail moves out. Every other topic on the page is a section with a nav entry, and "how close did we need to live, and would we have got in?" is a topic, not a variant reading of the intake figures. The headline number stays on the Admissions tile where the intake story is; the record behind it now lives in a Distance section directly below. admissions 1503px -> 554px distance new -> 743px (median section on the page is ~528px) Three further changes, each of which also makes the content better rather than only shorter: * The map renders on request. Before a postcode is entered it is a circle drawn round a school, and it costs a Leaflet bundle and 240px to say so; a successful check opens it automatically, which is the point at which it starts answering something. Map height 320px -> 240px. * The chart appears only at the four published years that let the summary state a direction. Below that we already refuse to call the series a trend, and a line through three points asserts one regardless of what the sentence beneath it admits. The table carries those years anyway, with the reasons a line cannot show. * Three caveat paragraphs become one. They said walking-route twice and made the same point about priorities in two voices. It now sits in CutoffDistanceDetail rather than inside the check, so it still renders for a school with coordinates missing, where there is a table but no map and no check. The new e2e guard asserts no section exceeds 2.5x the median section height. Measuring the card's internals cannot catch this: the tile grid is flex: 1, so it absorbs the stretch and every box still looks full. The first version of this test targeted an arbitrary primary, passed against the live bug, and proved nothing; pointed at a school that actually holds cut-off history it fails on staging with "#admissions is 1459px against a 526px median". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WDvkyqqHABm4bmth2kjAxE
SchoolCompare Next.js Application
Modern Next.js application for comparing primary school KS2 performance across England.
Features
- Server-Side Rendering (SSR): Fast initial page loads with pre-rendered content
- Individual School Pages: Dedicated pages for each school with full SEO optimization
- Side-by-Side Comparison: Compare up to 5 schools simultaneously
- School Rankings: Top-performing schools by various metrics
- Interactive Maps: Leaflet integration for geographic visualization
- Performance Charts: Chart.js visualizations for historical data
- Responsive Design: Mobile-first approach with full responsive support
- SEO Optimized: Dynamic sitemaps, meta tags, and structured data
Tech Stack
- Framework: Next.js 16 (App Router)
- Language: TypeScript 5
- Styling: CSS Modules + CSS Variables
- State Management: React Context API + URL state
- Data Fetching: SWR (client-side) + Next.js fetch (server-side)
- Charts: Chart.js + react-chartjs-2
- Maps: Leaflet + react-leaflet
- Testing: Jest + React Testing Library
- Validation: Zod
Getting Started
Prerequisites
- Node.js 24+ (using nvm recommended)
- FastAPI backend running on port 8000
Installation
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Copy environment variables
cp .env.example .env.local
# Update .env.local with your configuration
Development
# Start development server
npm run dev
# Open http://localhost:3000
Building
# Build for production
npm run build
# Start production server
npm start
Testing
# Run tests
npm test
# Run tests in watch mode
npm run test:watch
# Run tests with coverage
npm run test:coverage
Linting
# Run ESLint
npm run lint
Project Structure
nextjs-app/
├── app/ # App Router pages
│ ├── layout.tsx # Root layout
│ ├── page.tsx # Home page
│ ├── compare/ # Compare page
│ ├── rankings/ # Rankings page
│ ├── school/[urn]/ # Individual school pages
│ ├── sitemap.ts # Dynamic sitemap
│ └── robots.ts # Robots.txt
├── components/ # React components
│ ├── SchoolCard.tsx # School card component
│ ├── FilterBar.tsx # Search/filter controls
│ ├── ComparisonView.tsx # Comparison interface
│ ├── RankingsView.tsx # Rankings table
│ └── ...
├── lib/ # Utility libraries
│ ├── api.ts # API client
│ ├── types.ts # TypeScript types
│ └── utils.ts # Helper functions
├── hooks/ # Custom React hooks
├── context/ # React Context providers
├── styles/ # Global styles
├── public/ # Static assets
└── __tests__/ # Test files
Environment Variables
| Variable | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL |
Public API endpoint (client-side) | http://localhost:8000/api |
FASTAPI_URL |
Server-side API endpoint | http://localhost:8000/api |
NODE_ENV |
Environment mode | development |
Performance Optimizations
- Server-Side Rendering: Initial HTML rendered on server
- Static Generation: Where possible, pages are pre-generated
- Image Optimization: Next.js Image component with AVIF/WebP support
- Code Splitting: Automatic route-based code splitting
- Dynamic Imports: Heavy components loaded on demand
- API Caching: Configurable revalidation for data fetching
- Bundle Optimization: Tree shaking and minification
- Compression: Gzip compression enabled
SEO Features
- Dynamic Meta Tags: Generated per page with Next.js Metadata API
- Open Graph: Social media optimization
- JSON-LD: Structured data for search engines
- Sitemap: Auto-generated from database
- Robots.txt: Search engine crawling rules
- Canonical URLs: Duplicate content prevention
Browser Support
- Chrome (latest)
- Firefox (latest)
- Safari (latest)
- Edge (latest)
License
Proprietary - SchoolCompare
Support
For issues and questions, please contact the development team.