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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.
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# The Vine Coffeehouse + Bakery — itsthevine.com
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Site for The Vine, 215 E Main Street, Princeville, Illinois. Spring Boot rendering its own pages with
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Thymeleaf, on [the Bennett platform](https://git.thebennett.net/austin/platform).
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Previously a Next.js app on Cloudflare, then a React SPA on Spring, now server-rendered end to end —
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there is no JavaScript framework in this repo. The look has not changed through any of it.
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## Shape
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| Backend | Spring Boot 4 / Java 25, `com.itsthevine.web` |
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| Pages | Thymeleaf, `src/main/resources/templates` — **no JavaScript** except one 100-line file for the product-card arrows |
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| Styling | Tailwind v4, compiled from the templates by the Tailwind CLI into `static/css/site.css`. `src/main/styles` is the whole asset pipeline |
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| Admin | Thymeleaf forms at `/admin`, behind Authentik |
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| Database | Postgres (`itsthevine` on the shared `app-db` cluster), Flyway |
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| Photos | public MinIO bucket `itsthevine` — **not** in the repo or the image |
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| Deploy | Gitea CI → image → Watchtower → Caddy |
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### The look, in one place
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`src/main/styles` is the whole of it — no bundler, no framework, one stylesheet:
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| file | what it holds |
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| `theme.css` | the three typefaces and the sage-and-cream palette. Names, nothing drawn |
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| `base.css` | bare elements: page background, body type, the fade-in, the focus ring, the z-index scale |
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| `type.css` | the typographic ladder (below) |
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| `components.css` | `panel`, `pill-*`, `chip`, `section`/`band` — the site's own classes |
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| `admin.css` | the admin's controls, as `@utility` so `file:` variants work on the photo pickers |
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**The type ladder comes out of the logo.** The lockup is "The Vine" in LeJour Script over COFFEEHOUSE +
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BAKERY in AdBhashitha, letterspaced — and everything below is that idea made progressively more readable:
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the script stays in the wordmark and nowhere else; AdBhashitha carries `h1`–`h4` and `price`, keeping the
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wordmark's 0.01em letter-spacing so a heading sits on the same rhythm as the logo above it; `eyebrow` and
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`label` are the hinge, sans but letterspaced like the tagline; then plain Raleway for anything you have to
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read a paragraph of. None of the type classes set a colour — the same heading appears in sage on cream and
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cream on sage.
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Write those class names in templates rather than the utilities behind them: a button is `pill-sage`, and
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the four colourways exist because the site puts buttons on cream *and* on sage.
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### Why server-rendered
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The pages are content: a menu, a story, opening hours, a price list. Rendering them in the browser meant
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shipping a router and a component tree to show them, and it meant `PageMetaController` — a class whose
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only job was to splice per-page `<title>` and OG tags into one shell with regular expressions, because a
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crawler or a link-preview scraper got nothing useful otherwise. A page that is rendered on the server
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writes its own head, so that whole mechanism is deleted rather than ported. The category filter is a
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`?category=` link instead of a click handler, which also makes every filtered view a URL you can send
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someone, and the contact form is a form post.
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`platform.web.spa.enabled=false` follows from that: the platform's fallback forwards extension-less paths
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to `/index.html` so a React SPA can own routing, and there is no SPA here — leaving it on would answer a
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mistyped URL with a blank page and a 200 instead of the site's own 404.
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## What the server owns
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Everything. The pages arrive complete.
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- **`/api/products`**, **`/api/categories`** — the catalogue, its curated order, the category filter
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and the absolute image URLs. This was a TypeScript array shipped to every visitor; it's now a table
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(`V2__products.sql`) read through `ProductCatalog`.
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- **`/catering`** — the goodie box and catering page. Each table is rendered twice from the same model
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and CSS shows one: a real `<table>` on a wide screen, because that is what a price list is and a screen
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reader then announces the size and the item together; stacked cards on a phone, because a four-column
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price table there is either illegible or a sideways scroll, and this page is mostly read on phones.
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- **`/api/catering`** — the same tables as JSON: the
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columns, the prices already written the way they should be read, the entries under each column, and
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the small print. These came from the bakery as a spreadsheet and are stored as one (`V4__catering.sql`,
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read through `CateringMenu`) rather than as markup, because the prices move and the last line of that
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spreadsheet says the tables are "mostly just an idea for people". `Money` is the only thing that
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decides what a typed price means or how it prints. A table with no columns or no lines is left off the
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public response — adding a table and filling it in are two separate acts in the admin, and the gap
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between them shouldn't put a bare heading on the live page.
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- **`/contact`** — the form posts here and gets a page back. It renders rather than redirects on failure,
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so a refused relay comes back with what the visitor typed still in the boxes: they wrote it once, and
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the failure is ours. `/api/contact` still exists and answers JSON; both go through `Enquiries`, so
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there is one order of operations for taking an enquiry.
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- **`/api/contact`** — validates, **records the enquiry**, emails it, then fans out to the n8n hub.
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Recorded before sending on purpose: a relay outage costs a notification, not the enquiry. Undelivered
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ones are `enquiry.delivered = false`. Validation and delivery come from `platform-starter-contact`,
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shared with the other sites.
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- **Per-page metadata** — each route states its own title and description in `SiteController`, next to
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the handler that serves it, and `fragments/head.html` lays them out. `SiteControllerTest` asserts the
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real `<title>` of every page.
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## /admin
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Forms and redirects. Every write is a POST followed by a redirect back to the page, so the back button
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and reload do what they look like they do, a double-tap can't repeat an upload, and there is no
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client-side state to lose — a reload is always the truth. Two screens: `/admin` is the catalogue,
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`/admin/catering` lists the price tables and `/admin/catering/tables/{id}` edits one.
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The catalogue is editable from the site: add an item with a photo and a name, reorder it, rename or
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reorder the category filters. Nothing there needs a deploy or a migration — which is the point, since
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the person adding a cake is the person who baked it.
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Photos are resized, stripped of EXIF, converted to webp and put in the bucket on upload
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(`ProductPhotoService`, using `cwebp` from `libwebp-tools` — the pure-Java encoders either can't write
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webp or ship glibc natives that don't run on Alpine).
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The catering tables are edited a table at a time rather than a field at a time. That isn't a taste in
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interfaces: a column heading, its price and the entries beneath it only mean anything together, so
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`CateringPackage#arrange` takes the whole table and refuses one whose lines and columns disagree. Drop
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the middle column on its own and every remaining entry shifts one place left — the Large box then
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advertises the Medium box's contents at the Large price, and nothing about the page looks broken.
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**How that works without JavaScript.** One form holds the whole table and every button in it submits
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that form; `name="do"` says which was pressed and its value carries the position it applies to
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(`remove-column:2`). So "add a column" arrives with every cell the editor has typed, adds the column to
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what arrived — plus an empty entry on every line — and re-renders. Nothing typed is lost, and **only
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Save writes**: a half-built table with a blank column heading never reaches the live page, and the
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aggregate would refuse it anyway. A failed save comes back the same way, with the work still in the
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form and the reason above it, because a redirect would throw the work away and leave the editor guessing
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which cell the message was about.
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**The admin only exists when `SECURITY_MODE=OIDC`.** `AdminController` and `AdminCateringController` are
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`@ConditionalOnProperty` on it, so a deployment that forgets to configure Authentik gets 404s rather than
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catalogue writes open to the internet. `/admin/**` is an authenticated path, so a browser opening it is
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sent to Authentik and comes back signed in. There is no JSON admin any more: `AdminProductController`,
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`AdminCategoryController` and the old `/api/admin/**` endpoints existed for the React screen and went
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with it. Their logic lives in `Catalogue` and `CateringMenu`, which the pages call.
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**Testing a protected page needs `Accept: text/html`.** curl and MockMvc both send `*/*`, which the
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platform answers with a bare 401; only a request that prefers HTML gets the 302 to Authentik. Asserting
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the 401 and calling the page broken is a mistake worth not making twice.
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Known gap: `StorageService` has no delete, so removing a product or a photo leaves the object in the
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bucket. Harmless — nothing links to it — but it accumulates.
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## Photos
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Re-encoded to webp and uploaded to the bucket once (50 MB of originals → 14 MB), served with a
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year-long cache. `site.assets.base-url` says where they live. The originals remain in this repo's
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history. EXIF (including GPS from phone photos) is stripped by the re-encode.
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## Local development
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```bash
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# the whole site, admin included (needs Postgres on :5432 with an itsthevine database)
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mvn spring-boot:run # http://localhost:8080
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# the stylesheet, while editing templates — watches and recompiles
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cd src/main/styles && npm install && npm run watch
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```
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`/admin` only exists when `SECURITY_MODE=OIDC`, so a plain local run has the site and no admin. To work
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on the admin without an identity provider, run with `SECURITY_MODE=OIDC`, dummy
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`spring.security.oauth2.client.*` values (see `AdminPagesTest` for a set that starts without touching
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the network) and `platform.security.authenticated-paths=/nothing/**` so nothing asks you to sign in.
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`mvn spring-boot:run` compiles the stylesheet on the way (the Tailwind step is bound to
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`process-classes` for exactly that reason). `-DskipFrontend=true` skips both frontend steps for a fast
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backend loop — the pages then render **unstyled** until you build the CSS once.
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Templates are cached by default, so a template edit needs a restart; add
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`spring.thymeleaf.cache=false` to a local run if you are editing markup.
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Tests need Docker (Testcontainers):
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```bash
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mvn verify
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```
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## Configuration
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| Variable | Purpose |
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| `DB_URL` / `DB_USER` / `DB_PASSWORD` | Postgres |
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| `SMTP_SERVER` / `SMTP_PORT` / `SMTP_USERNAME` / `SMTP_TOKEN` | relay for the contact form |
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| `CONTACT_TO` / `CONTACT_FROM` | enquiry recipient and envelope sender |
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| `CONTACT_HUB_URL` | optional n8n webhook; best-effort, never blocks a submission |
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| `SITE_BASE_URL` | absolute base for `og:url` |
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| `site.assets.base-url` | photo bucket. Server-side only now — the browser is handed finished URLs |
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| `GIT_SHA` | passed by the image build; becomes `?v=` on the stylesheet so a deploy invalidates the cached CSS |
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| `SECURITY_MODE` | `OIDC` turns on Authentik login **and brings `/admin` into existence**. Unset = brochure site, no admin |
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| `STORAGE_ENDPOINT` / `STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY` / `STORAGE_SECRET_KEY` / `STORAGE_BUCKET` | MinIO, for admin photo uploads. Blank endpoint leaves storage switched off |
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With `SECURITY_MODE=OIDC` the app also needs the standard Spring OAuth2 client properties for the
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Authentik application — `SPRING_SECURITY_OAUTH2_CLIENT_REGISTRATION_*` and
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`..._PROVIDER_*_ISSUER_URI`. The starter configures the filter chain, not the identity provider.
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A missing `CONTACT_TO` **stops the app from starting**. That is deliberate: `application.yaml` maps it
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to `platform.contact.to`, and an unset variable leaves the property present-but-empty, which is enough
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to activate the contact starter. Without the `@NotBlank` check in `platform-starter-contact` the site
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would come up, show a working contact form, and mail every enquiry to nobody. Better to fail on deploy
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than to lose a week of orders.
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