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austin 69af6c672e The shop knows when it is open, and says so — to visitors and to Google
Three things a bakery's site should do that this one couldn't, all from the same fact.

THE HOURS WERE MARKUP, so the only thing the site could do with them was print them. A visitor at half
past two on a Sunday had to work out for themselves that the shop was shut. They are data now (Shop.WEEK),
and `Hours` reads them two ways: as the list the footer and the contact page print — consecutive days with
the same times collapsed into one line, the way a sign does it, instead of three hand-written rows — and
as an answer. The header now says "Open until 2:00pm", or "Closed · opens Tuesday at 7:00am", worked out
on the server in the shop's own timezone. Right now, on a Sunday evening, it says the latter.

THE SHOP IS NOW DESCRIBED TO A SEARCH ENGINE: schema.org Bakery in the head, with the address, the phone
number and those same opening times. For a shop whose customers find it by searching its town, that is the
difference between a blue link and a listing that shows "Open ⋅ closes 2pm" — and it cannot drift from
what the page says, because it is built from the same record. Serialised with Jackson rather than
string-built, so the day somebody interpolates a name into it, it is not an injection. (Jackson 3 —
`tools.jackson` — which is what Boot 4 ships; the fasterxml import does not compile.)

A SHARED LINK NOW HAS A PICTURE. og:image, og:image:alt and a large summary card: it was a grey box with a
title, which is what every link to this site has looked like in a message.

AND IT PRINTS. The catering page is a price list and a bakery prints price lists — Ctrl-P now gives the
prices on paper rather than a screenshot of a website: no chrome, no sage bands eating a cartridge, cards
that don't split across a page break, and the buttons that only exist to be clicked marked `no-print`.

Five new tests, all of them free of Spring, because this is a calculation over a constant: the week
collapses as a sign would write it, the minute of opening counts as open and the minute of closing does
not, and a Saturday afternoon is told when Tuesday starts.

Also swept the last one-off styles the earlier pass missed — max-w-3xl/4xl, an inline letter-spacing the
.h2 class already carries, and the mobile menu's link string.
2026-07-26 19:27:41 -05:00
austin 007d298b36 Everything on the shared names — the copy-paste is gone
The ported markup was written a page at a time, so the same thing was said several ways. Counted before
touching anything: nine variants of the page gutter, seven max-widths, six link styles, two definitions of
an input, and one stray shadow.

Now: `container` (which already centres and pads), `measure`/`measure-wide`, `link`/`link-plain`/
`link-on-dark`, one `field`, `photo`, `page-head`. Nothing in a template writes `bg-white rounded-…
shadow-…` or `underline underline-offset-4` any more — 119 uses of `panel`, 82 of `label`, 52 of
`panel-lift`, 17 of `link`.

TWO REAL FIXES FELL OUT OF IT, not just tidying:

- Every section said `container mx-auto px-4`: `mx-auto` twice, and a px-4 that beat the responsive
  padding inside `container`. The gutter was 16px at every width, including on a 27-inch screen. Removing
  the copy-paste restores sm:px-6 lg:px-8, which is most of why the pages now breathe.
- The public form and the admin had grown two different inputs — cream vs white, ring-2 vs ring-1, py-2.5
  vs py-2, and different text sizes. There is one `field` now, and the same focus ring as everything else.

The admin uses the same names where they are the same thing (`link`, `field`, `h4`, `--radius-*`) and
keeps its own denser buttons, because it is a tool and not a shop front.

53 tests green. Every class used across all nine pages resolves in the compiled stylesheet — that check is
what makes a sweep this size safe to do with a script.
2026-07-26 18:43:40 -05:00
austin ec61b40b12 A design pass: the type ladder from the logo, and one name per thing
TYPOGRAPHY, taken from the lockup and walked down to something you can read a paragraph in. "The Vine" in
LeJour Script over COFFEEHOUSE + BAKERY in AdBhashitha is the whole brand voice, so: the script stays in
the wordmark and nowhere else (it is unreadable at length); AdBhashitha carries h1–h4 and the price, and
keeps the wordmark's 0.01em letter-spacing so a heading sits on the same rhythm as the logo above it;
`eyebrow` and `label` are the hinge — sans, but letterspaced like the tagline — and then plain Raleway.
Sizes are declared once in type.css instead of being re-chosen per template, and none of the type classes
set a colour, because the same heading appears in sage on cream and in cream on sage.

BUTTONS AND SURFACES have names now. `panel` is the white box that was "bg-white rounded-3xl shadow-xs"
written out in nine places (which is how two of them end up with different corners); `panel-lift` is one
that reacts. `pill` is one shape in four colourways, which exist because this site puts buttons on cream
AND on sage and they cannot be the same colour on both. `chip`/`chip-on` are the products filter.

RHYTHM: `section` (py-16 md:py-24) and `band` (py-14 md:py-20, tighter because a coloured strip is already
doing the separating) replace nine hand-picked paddings.

FOCUS: one visible ring for everything reachable by keyboard, as an outline rather than a shadow so it
works on cream, on white and on the sage bands, at zero specificity so a utility can still win.

Z-INDEX: written down in base.css, all two of it — 40 the sticky header, 30 the mobile panel, which is a
child of the header and so can only ever sit under the bar. Everything else stacks in document order. The
point of the comment is that a third layer doesn't get invented at 9999.

DROPDOWNS: the admin's category selects were drawing the platform's own arrow in the platform's grey; they
get the site's chevron and room for it.

53 tests green. Every class used across all nine pages — five public, four admin — resolves in the
compiled stylesheet, so nothing here is styled by a name that doesn't exist.
2026-07-26 18:10:47 -05:00
austin 5225312a86 Give the other pages somewhere to go, and move the stylesheets under src/main
MARKETING, not decoration — each of these was a page that stopped:

- The HOMEPAGE never mentioned catering. A customer found the page by reading the nav. It now has a
  section with a photo, what the three tables cover, and a button.
- PRODUCTS was a title and a grid. It gets a line saying what it is ("cakes and decorated cookies are
  made to order, so most of what follows started as somebody describing what they wanted") and a closing
  band with somewhere to go — an order, or the catering page.
- CONTACT was a form and nothing else. The things somebody on that page actually wants — when we're open,
  where we are, the phone number — were on the homepage and in the footer but not there. Now beside the
  form, with a card pointing at catering.
- OUR STORY got the shop's own front as a band and an ending, so the story leads somewhere.
- The FOOTER gained the opening hours, which is what people come to a bakery's site for and is now on
  every page.

CLEANED UP ON THE WAY. The hours and the address were about to exist in three places, so they are one
fragment (fragments/visit.html) that takes the classes that vary by where it sits — cream in the footer,
sage on white in a card. A shop that changes its Saturday hours should change them once.

STYLES MOVED to src/main/styles, with the rest of the app's source, and split by what each file is for:
theme.css (the fonts and the palette — names, nothing drawn), base.css (bare elements), components.css
(the site's own classes), admin.css (the admin's controls), and site.css as the entry that imports them in
cascade order and declares what Tailwind scans. It was one grab-bag file called tokens.css in a folder at
the repo root. node_modules has to stay beside them — Tailwind resolves `@import "tailwindcss"` by walking
up from the CSS file — so the whole npm project moved together, and the pom, .gitignore and README moved
with it.

53 tests green, `mvn package` builds the stylesheet from its new home, and every class used on all five
pages resolves in the compiled CSS (185/159/175/148/140, none missing).
2026-07-26 17:56:00 -05:00
austin 70af2922f5 The site renders itself: Thymeleaf pages, and a catering page among them
The public site was a React SPA. It is now server-rendered Thymeleaf, and the goodie box and catering
tables added in the previous commit have a page of their own. The look is unchanged: the templates
carry the same Tailwind classes the components did, and every one of the 241 classes the five pages
use resolves in the compiled stylesheet.

WHAT WENT AWAY. PageMetaController — 148 lines whose only job was to splice per-page <title> and OG
tags into one shell with regular expressions, with a test that read the real index.html so that
reformatting it failed the build instead of silently breaking the rewriting. A page rendered on the
server writes its own head. Also react-router (no client-side routes left), motion, vite-plugin-svgr,
and the SPA fallback (platform.web.spa.enabled=false): with the site server-rendered, forwarding a
mistyped URL to /index.html would answer with a blank admin shell and a 200 instead of the site's own
404 page.

WHAT GOT BETTER ON THE WAY, none of it visible. The category filter is a ?category= link, so every
filtered view is a URL you can send someone and a crawler can reach all forty items instead of the
twelve the default filter showed. The contact form is a form post: the enquiry is recorded before
delivery is attempted, and a refused relay re-renders the page with what the visitor typed still in
the boxes. The mobile menu is a <details> — the React version needed four effects to close on
navigation, close on Escape, stop the page behind it scrolling, and unmount (a panel parked off-screen
still extends the scrollable area, which is how you used to be able to scroll sideways and find the
menu); a new document cannot inherit an open menu.

THE PUBLIC SITE SHIPS 5 KB OF JAVASCRIPT, and works without it. The product cards are scroll-snap
strips, so the photos swipe on a phone and scroll with a trackpad unaided; gallery.js adds the arrows
and the dots, and creates them itself rather than having the template render controls that would sit
there dead.

Tailwind still needs its compiler, so npm remains a BUILD tool: the CLI compiles the templates into
static/css/site.css at process-classes (so `spring-boot:run` gets it too), and frontend/ now builds
only that stylesheet and the admin. The brand tokens are one file both stylesheets import — the
alternative was the shop front and the screen that edits it drifting a shade apart. The stylesheet URL
carries ?v=<sha>, because one hand-written CSS file has no content hash and a deploy has to be able to
tell a browser that what it cached is stale.

The admin is still React and is untouched, apart from losing the router it no longer needs. It is an
editor, not content.

PlatformContractTest stopped inheriting platform-starter-test's contract and restates it. The shared
version asserts that an unknown path forwards to the SPA shell, which is no longer true here, and its
test methods are package-private so it cannot be overridden. The platform should decide that assertion
from platform.web.spa.enabled — noted in the file.

9 new tests (46 total): every page's real title and og:url, the catalogue and the catering tables in
the HTML rather than fetched afterwards, server-side filtering, the 404, and that a crafted ?about=
link cannot put words of its own choosing in front of a customer.
2026-07-26 16:07:01 -05:00