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frontend: rewrite the SSR content service in Go (#28)
Ports frontend/ (Jinja2/FastAPI, ~1180 LOC) to Go with html/template. No
climate math, no DB, no auth -- every route fetches from the backend's
/content/* API.

Verified with a golden-HTML diff, not just unit tests: both the Python
original and the Go rewrite were run against the same committed fixtures
and every route compared byte-for-byte, confirmed programmatically. That
process caught defects unit tests alone missed, since map[string]any has
no compile-time field check:

- Render-context keys were snake_case throughout while the templates read
  PascalCase fields. A missing map key doesn't error, it silently renders
  empty -- title, meta description, canonical URL, OpenGraph tags, and the
  homepage's entire ranked list were blank on every page despite every
  route returning 200. Fixed by renaming every key to match each
  template's own documented field contract, and passing API structs
  straight through wherever their fields already matched (removes a whole
  layer of future drift risk).
- Three pages 500'd: ToolHref needed a composed href, not a bare
  "lat,lon" fragment; the records table needed the raw API struct.
- JSON-LD was double-encoded: <script type="application/ld+json"> is
  JAVASCRIPT context to html/template's escaper regardless of the
  script's type attribute, so template.HTML gets re-escaped as a quoted
  JS string. Needed template.JS. The glossary term page's JSON-LD was
  never built at all -- added.
- html/template silently strips literal HTML and JS comments from parsed
  output (verified in isolation) -- both need a FuncMap function
  returning template.HTML/template.JS to survive.

Packaging: 187MB -> 22.6MB. Two defects caught before reaching a host: the
Swarm stack's entrypoint override with no explicit command drops the
image's CMD entirely (every deploy would have exited 127), and
COPY --chown by name fails under the classic Docker builder on Alpine.
Both fixed.

go build/vet/test -race clean; docker build passes its embedded test step
under both BuildKit and the classic builder; shellcheck 0 findings.
2026-07-24 00:53:48 +00:00

2.8 KiB

thermograph-frontend (Go)

The SSR frontend service, ported from the Python implementation one directory up (app.py / content.py / api_client.py / format.py): server-rendered content pages, the interactive tool's SPA shells, and every static asset. It is I/O-bound glue over the backend's /content/* JSON API — no climate maths, no database, no auth.

Layout

go.mod                        module thermograph/frontend (Go 1.26)
main.go                       config + mux + static + graceful shutdown
internal/config/              every env var the service reads (same names,
                              defaults and required/optional split as the
                              Python — see config.go's field docs)
internal/contentapi/          backend /content/* client: TTL cache, bounded
                              LRU, per-key single-flight, origin forwarding;
                              typed payloads in types.go
internal/render/              html/template engine over an embed.FS +
                              response ETag helpers (W/"sha1[:20]",
                              If-None-Match handling)
internal/render/templates/    the page templates (embedded; *.tmpl)
internal/contentdata/         glossary.yaml / pages.yaml loader (fail-loud
                              validation, file order preserved)

Dependencies: stdlib plus gopkg.in/yaml.v3 — the committed SSR copy in frontend/content/*.yaml is shared with the rest of the repo and uses block/ folded scalars, so a YAML parser is genuinely required.

Run locally

cd frontend/server
go build -o thermograph-frontend .
cd ..            # static/ and content/ resolve relative to the working dir
THERMOGRAPH_API_BASE_INTERNAL=http://127.0.0.1:8137 \
THERMOGRAPH_BASE=/thermograph \
  ./server/thermograph-frontend

THERMOGRAPH_API_BASE_INTERNAL is required — the boot fails loudly without it, same as the Python raised at import. Other env vars (all optional): THERMOGRAPH_BASE (default /thermograph; the image sets /), THERMOGRAPH_API_VERSION (default v2 — bump only per the API-version pinning contract in frontend/CLAUDE.md), THERMOGRAPH_API_BASE_PUBLIC, THERMOGRAPH_SSR_CACHE_TTL (seconds, default 600), THERMOGRAPH_GOOGLE_VERIFY / THERMOGRAPH_BING_VERIFY, and PORT (default 8080).

The process expects static/ and content/ in its working directory (frontend/ locally, /app in the image). Templates are embedded in the binary; static assets and the YAML copy are read from disk.

Test / verify

cd frontend/server
go build ./... && go vet ./... && go test ./...

The deployed binary is /usr/local/bin/thermograph-frontend inside the emi/thermograph/frontend image; the image name, frontend-* CI workflows and deploy path are unchanged from the Python service.