PocketBase gains optional, manually-authored English fields on articles
and categories (same record, same slug), and the frontend serves an /en
counterpart of every dynamic route via thin page wrappers around shared
view components — no i18n library, consistent with the project's existing
minimalism stance for a two-locale site with ~20 UI strings.
An article/category with no translation 404s cleanly on its own /en
detail page and is filtered out of /en listings, and the header's
language-switch link falls back to the English blog index rather than a
dead link; resolving that requires a global route middleware, since the
layout's header renders before the page content in document order and so
can't react to state a page component sets during its own async setup.
Strapi + Postgres are gone in favor of PocketBase: a single Go binary
with embedded SQLite, built-in admin UI and per-collection API rules.
No content existed yet, so this is a clean swap with no data migration.
Collections and rules are defined as code in pocketbase/pb_migrations/
and applied automatically on first boot. Draft & Publish has no native
PocketBase equivalent, so it's reproduced with a nullable `publishedAt`
field enforced by listRule/viewRule, matching the old Strapi semantics.
Routing flips: PocketBase's admin UI and REST/file API are hardwired to
`/_/` and `/api/*` at the domain root (its own dashboard assets and API
calls reference those paths directly, so a stripped path prefix like
`/admin/*` would break them). `/api` is therefore reserved for
PocketBase now, and the frontend's Nitro endpoints move to `/content/*`
(frontend/server/routes/content/, not server/api/). A `/admin` vanity
route in Nitro (not Caddy) redirects to `/_/`, so it works the same in
dev, where Caddy isn't part of the stack, and in production.
frontend/server/utils/strapi.ts becomes pocketbase.ts; queries.ts is
rewritten for PocketBase's filter/sort/fields/expand query syntax.
StrapiImage becomes MediaImage (no width/height — PocketBase file
fields don't store dimensions, and the cover images already reserve
their aspect ratio via CSS, so this is not a regression).
docs/*.md, CLAUDE.md and README.md are updated in the same commit.
The browser never talks to Strapi: pages call Nitro endpoints under
server/api/, which are the only place Strapi queries are built. That keeps the
Strapi URL internal to the Docker network and avoids CORS entirely.
Article bodies are rendered from Markdown to HTML in the endpoint, so the
content is server-rendered and crawlable, marked stays out of the client
bundle, and the meta description is derived from the opening of the body.
Pages carry canonical URLs, Open Graph tags and BlogPosting structured data,
and handle empty, missing and failed states.
davide