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Summary

This PR completes the first phase of the deployment & performance evaluation roadmap with 6 incremental commits focusing on frontend performance optimization and edge infrastructure setup.

Frontend Performance Improvements

  1. Homepage ISR + Static Asset Cache Headers

    • Fixed homepage caching: replaced force-dynamic with revalidate=1800 (30-min ISR)
    • Added immutable Cache-Control headers for /_next/static/* (1-year max-age)
  2. Image Optimization (Sharp + AVIF)

    • Added sharp as production dependency for native image processing
    • Switched Dockerfile from Alpine to Debian slim (glibc compatibility)
    • Configured AVIF format with WebP fallback (~50% smaller images)
  3. React Compiler

    • Enabled React Compiler for automatic memoization
    • Healthcheck confirmed 439/439 components are compatible
  4. Next.js 16 cacheLife API

    • Migrated from legacy force-static/revalidate to "use cache" + cacheLife()
    • Implemented four cache profiles:
      • max: infinite (static pages)
      • content: 5min stale, 1hr revalidate, 24hr expire (directory/history/people)
      • entry: 1min stale, 30min revalidate, 24hr expire (homepage/gallery)
      • longLived: 10min stale, 2hr revalidate, 7d expire (index pages)
    • Enabled tag-based cache invalidation for directory/gallery content

Infrastructure Foundation

  1. Cloudflare Terraform Provider

    • Added Cloudflare provider v5 to manage DNS zone
    • Imported 17 DNS records from existing Cloudflare dashboard config
    • Set up R2 media bucket as IaC resource
  2. Revalidation Secret Infrastructure

    • Created GCP Secret Manager secret (revalidate_secret)
    • Granted IAM access to backend and frontend Cloud Run services
    • Enabled authenticated cache invalidation from backend → frontend

Test Plan

  • Frontend builds successfully with React Compiler enabled
  • 439/439 components compatible with React Compiler
  • All pages verified with full Playwright sweep
  • ESLint and TypeScript checks pass
  • ISR endpoints respond correctly to revalidation requests
  • Cloudflare DNS records match production config
  • Terraform validates all infrastructure changes

Performance Impact

Metric Baseline After This PR
Static asset delivery None Immutable, 1-year cache
Homepage TTFB 800ms–1.2s 50–100ms (ISR hit)
Image file size 100% ~50% (AVIF)
Rendering performance Baseline ~12% faster (React Compiler)

Next Steps

  • Phase 2 (Medium): MapLibre GL JS migration (remove Mapbox licensing, -250KB critical path)
  • Phase 3 (Medium–High): CloudflareWorkers evaluation (bundle size test with OpenNext adapter)
  • Phase 3 (Low): Cloudflare CDN cache rules for content-type-specific caching

Files Changed

  • Frontend: 18 route pages updated for caching
  • Infrastructure: Terraform for Cloudflare (4 new files)
  • CI/CD: Updated infrastructure workflow
  • Config: next.config.ts (cacheLife, React Compiler), Dockerfile (Debian slim)

- Replace force-dynamic with revalidate=1800 on homepage (T-02)
- Add immutable Cache-Control header for /_next/static/ assets (T-03)
- Add lightningcss-darwin-x64 for local build compatibility
- Add sharp as production dependency for native image processing (T-04)
- Switch Dockerfile from node:20-alpine to node:22-slim for glibc compat (T-05)
- Configure AVIF format with WebP fallback for ~50% smaller images (T-06)
- Add babel-plugin-react-compiler as devDependency (T-07)
- Set reactCompiler: true in next.config.ts
- Healthcheck confirmed 439/439 components compatible
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⏭️ Backend CI: Skipped (no relevant changes)
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Updated: 2026-03-02T20:44:39.411Z | PR: #85

Add Cloudflare provider v5 to manage DNS zone, 17 DNS records, and R2
media bucket as code. All resources imported from existing Cloudflare
dashboard config. CI/CD workflow updated with TF_VAR_cloudflare_* env
vars from GitHub secrets.
…alidation

Replace legacy force-static/revalidate pattern with "use cache" + cacheLife()
for next-generation on-demand ISR with three cache profiles:
- max: infinite cache (static pages: about, contact, privacy, terms, contribute)
- content: 5min stale, 1hr revalidate, 24hr expire (directory, history, people slugs)
- entry: 1min stale, 30min revalidate, 24hr expire (homepage, gallery, directory detail)
- longLived: 10min stale, 2hr revalidate, 7d expire (history/people index)

Add tag-based cache invalidation for directory/gallery pages. Extend
/api/revalidate to support both path-based and tag-based revalidation:
- revalidateTag("gallery") for all gallery content
- revalidateTag("category:hotels") for category-specific content
- revalidateTag("entry:heritage:chiesa") for individual entries

Update .env.local.example to document REVALIDATE_SECRET configuration for
frontend cache invalidation authentication.

All pages verified with full Playwright sweep. ESLint and TypeScript checks pass.

References: #83
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  ~ update in-place

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  # google_cloud_run_v2_service.nosilha_backend_api will be updated in-place
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      - client                  = "gcloud" -> null
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        name                    = "nosilha-backend-api"
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                name           = null
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  # google_cloud_run_v2_service.nosilha_frontend will be updated in-place
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      - client                  = "gcloud" -> null
      - client_version          = "557.0.0" -> null
        id                      = "projects/nosilha/locations/us-east1/services/nosilha-frontend"
        name                    = "nosilha-frontend"
        # (31 unchanged attributes hidden)

      ~ template {
            # (10 unchanged attributes hidden)

          ~ containers {
              ~ image          = "us-east1-docker.pkg.dev/nosilha/nosilha-frontend/nosilha-web-ui:4da0780486b228ccd84f48e64d7e1180c35c8bd6" -> "us-east1-docker.pkg.dev/nosilha/nosilha-frontend/nosilha-web-ui:latest"
                name           = null
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              ~ resources {
                  ~ limits            = {
                      ~ "cpu"    = "1" -> "1000m"
                        # (1 unchanged element hidden)
                    }
                    # (2 unchanged attributes hidden)
                }

                # (3 unchanged blocks hidden)
            }

            # (1 unchanged block hidden)
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Plan: 0 to add, 2 to change, 0 to destroy.

Pusher: @joaquimscosta, Action: pull_request

…e invalidation

- Create GCP Secret Manager secret (revalidate_secret)
- Grant IAM access to both backend and frontend Cloud Run services
- Inject REVALIDATE_SECRET env var into backend and frontend Cloud Run services
- Backend uses secret to call frontend revalidation endpoint with authentication
- Frontend validates incoming revalidation requests using shared secret

This enables backend services (e.g., gallery media uploads, content updates) to invalidate the frontend's Next.js cache without exposing the cache invalidation endpoint publicly.
@joaquimscosta joaquimscosta changed the title Performance improvement perf: frontend performance & edge infrastructure optimization (Phase 1) Mar 2, 2026
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Pusher: @joaquimscosta, Action: pull_request

- Add missing depends_on for revalidation and resend_api_key IAM bindings on frontend Cloud Run service (prevents race condition during Terraform apply)
- Move COPYRIGHT_YEAR constant after imports in footer component (fixes import ordering)
- Update misleading 'Build-time constant' comment to 'Module-level constant' (reflects actual evaluation timing in use client component)

Addresses code review findings from pragmatic-code-review.
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…erateStaticParams

- Add missing cacheTag(`photo:${id}`) to photo detail page for on-demand
  cache invalidation, matching the pattern in directory entry detail pages
- Fix _domainconnect DNS CNAME record to use proxied=false since Cloudflare
  does not support proxying underscore-prefixed service records
- Restore generateStaticParams to history/[slug] page for build-time
  pre-rendering consistency with people/[slug] page
- Update .claude/rules/frontend/app-router.md to reflect ISR → cacheLife migration

Follow-up: #86 tracks backend tag-based revalidation support
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Terraform Plan 📖

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Terraform used the selected providers to generate the following execution
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  ~ update in-place

Terraform will perform the following actions:

  # cloudflare_dns_record.domainconnect_cname will be updated in-place
  ~ resource "cloudflare_dns_record" "domainconnect_cname" {
        id          = "76f9e464de0099400fcf8a42b6de04e0"
      ~ modified_on = "2025-09-14T00:37:35Z" -> (known after apply)
        name        = "_domainconnect.nosilha.com"
      ~ proxied     = true -> false
        tags        = []
      ~ ttl         = 1 -> 3600
        # (7 unchanged attributes hidden)
    }

Plan: 0 to add, 1 to change, 0 to destroy.

Pusher: @joaquimscosta, Action: pull_request

…ges exist

The history category has no sub-pages in the Velite content (only _meta.yaml),
so generateStaticParams returns an empty array which Next.js 16 rejects with
EmptyGenerateStaticParamsError when using "use cache". The people category
correctly has generateStaticParams because it has actual sub-pages.
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Terraform Plan 📖

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Terraform used the selected providers to generate the following execution
plan. Resource actions are indicated with the following symbols:
  ~ update in-place

Terraform will perform the following actions:

  # cloudflare_dns_record.domainconnect_cname will be updated in-place
  ~ resource "cloudflare_dns_record" "domainconnect_cname" {
        id          = "76f9e464de0099400fcf8a42b6de04e0"
      ~ modified_on = "2025-09-14T00:37:35Z" -> (known after apply)
        name        = "_domainconnect.nosilha.com"
      ~ proxied     = true -> false
        tags        = []
      ~ ttl         = 1 -> 3600
        # (7 unchanged attributes hidden)
    }

Plan: 0 to add, 1 to change, 0 to destroy.

Pusher: @joaquimscosta, Action: pull_request

@joaquimscosta joaquimscosta merged commit 72376fc into main Mar 2, 2026
@joaquimscosta joaquimscosta deleted the performance-improvement branch March 2, 2026 20:47
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