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frontend: fetch City() concurrently with the page's primary API call
MonthPage and RecordsPage each made two backend calls sequentially
(CityMonth/CityRecords, then City) where the second never depended on the
first's result -- both are independent single-slug lookups. Waiting for
one full round trip before even starting the other was pure latency with
nothing to show for it.

fetchWithCity launches both concurrently via goroutines and a WaitGroup.
Verified live against a stub with an injected 400ms delay on both
endpoints: city page (1 call) and month/records pages (2 calls each) all
cost ~0.404s now, not ~0.404s vs ~0.8s -- the two-call pages no longer pay
double.

Error priority is preserved exactly: if the primary call fails, its error
wins even when City also fails or hasn't finished, matching the old
sequential code (which never called City() once primary had already
failed). The one real trade-off, called out in the comment: City() is now
always launched even on a request that's about to 404 from primary, so an
invalid slug costs one extra (wasted, cheap) backend lookup it previously
skipped -- worth it since a bad slug is the rare path and a good one is
the common path this speeds up.

Tests: happy path; primary-error-wins and city-error-surfaces (both single
and combined failure); and a deterministic concurrency proof via
rendezvous channels rather than timing (the old sequential code would
deadlock this test, not just run it slower). Full suite green under
`-race -count=2`. Docker build (which runs `go test` inside the image)
passes.
2026-07-23 23:04:17 -07:00
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internal frontend: fetch City() concurrently with the page's primary API call 2026-07-23 23:04:17 -07:00
go.mod frontend: rewrite the SSR content service in Go (#28) 2026-07-24 00:53:48 +00:00
go.sum frontend: rewrite the SSR content service in Go (#28) 2026-07-24 00:53:48 +00:00
main.go frontend: rewrite the SSR content service in Go (#28) 2026-07-24 00:53:48 +00:00
README.md frontend: rewrite the SSR content service in Go (#28) 2026-07-24 00:53:48 +00:00

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.