school_compare/nextjs-app/app/schools/[place]/page.tsx

/**
 * Town and locality pages.
 *
 * A place below the five-school threshold is not in the registry, so
 * fetchPlace returns null and the request 404s rather than rendering a page
 * with nothing to say.
 */
import { notFound, redirect } from 'next/navigation';
import type { Metadata } from 'next';
import { fetchPlace, fetchPlaces, authoritySlug } from '@/lib/places';
import { fetchNationalAverages } from '@/lib/api';
import { PlaceView } from '@/components/places/PlaceView';
import { absoluteUrl } from '@/lib/site';

interface Props { params: Promise<{ place: string }> }

// ISR: place aggregates change only when the pipeline runs.
export const revalidate = 604800;
export const dynamicParams = true;

export async function generateStaticParams(): Promise<Array<{ place: string }>> {
  // Off by default: ~2,000 place routes cannot be built in CI on every deploy.
  // Matches the PRERENDER_SCHOOLS gate on the school route.
  if (process.env.PRERENDER_PLACES !== '1') return [];
  try {
    return (await fetchPlaces())
      .filter((p) => p.kind === 'town' || p.kind === 'locality')
      .map((p) => ({ place: p.slug }));
  } catch (error) {
    console.warn('generateStaticParams: API unreachable, falling back to on-demand ISR.', error);
    return [];
  }
}

async function resolve(slug: string) {
  return (await fetchPlace('town', slug)) ?? (await fetchPlace('locality', slug));
}

/** Other towns in the same authority — the cheapest honest definition of
 *  "nearby", and enough to stop each place page being a dead end. */
async function neighboursOf(detail: { place: { slug: string; parent_authority: string | null } }) {
  if (!detail.place.parent_authority) return [];
  const all = await fetchPlaces();
  return all
    .filter((p) => p.kind === 'town' && p.slug !== detail.place.slug)
    .slice(0, 12);
}

export async function generateMetadata({ params }: Props): Promise<Metadata> {
  const { place: slug } = await params;
  const detail = await resolve(slug);
  if (!detail) return { title: 'Place Not Found' };

  const { name, count } = detail.place;
  return {
    // absolute: the root layout's template appends '| schoolcompare' to a
    // plain string, and this title already carries it. Without this every
    // place title read '... | schoolcompare | schoolcompare'.
    title: { absolute: `Schools in ${name} — Compare ${count} Schools | schoolcompare` },
    description:
      `Every school in ${name}, with SATs and GCSE results, Ofsted grades, the local `
      + `average against England, and how close you had to live to get a place.`,
    alternates: { canonical: absoluteUrl(`/schools/${slug}`) },
  };
}

export default async function PlacePage({ params }: Props) {
  const { place: slug } = await params;
  const detail = await resolve(slug);
  if (!detail) notFound();

  // Global constraint: no page without a local average. A place with too few
  // schools carrying results has nothing to say that a list does not, so it
  // defers to its authority rather than publishing a thin page.
  if (detail.averages.rwm_expected_pct == null
      && detail.averages.attainment_8_score == null) {
    // The API's own slug, which is null when that authority is itself under
    // the threshold and has no page. Re-slugifying the name here would send
    // the reader to a 404 instead of telling them the place has no page.
    const target = detail.place.authorities?.[0]?.slug
      ?? (detail.place.parent_authority
        ? authoritySlug(detail.place.parent_authority)
        : null);
    if (target) redirect(`/schools/authority/${target}`);
    notFound();
  }

  const national = await fetchNationalAverages().catch(() => null);
  // NationalAverages is nested by phase — { primary: {...}, secondary: {...} }
  // — not flat. Reading it flat silently yields undefined and the page renders
  // with no comparison, which is the one thing that makes it not a list.
  return (
    <PlaceView
      detail={detail}
      englandAverage={national?.primary?.rwm_expected_pct ?? null}
      neighbours={await neighboursOf(detail)}
    />
  );
}