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davide 49c42ecc96 Replace Strapi CMS with PocketBase
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.
2026-09-11 11:25:14 +02:00

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Documentation

Technical documentation for this repository. For setup, deployment and day-to-day commands, see the root README.md; for coding conventions and constraints, see CLAUDE.md. These docs explain the structure and behavior of the system in more depth than either of those.

  • architecture.md — services, routing, request flow, environment variables.
  • content-model.md — PocketBase collections, admin panel, permissions, editorial workflow.
  • frontend.md — Nuxt routes, server (Nitro) endpoints, data flow, SEO.

What this repository is

A blog website with two faces:

  • Public site — anonymous visitors read articles and browse categories. Fully server-rendered, no login, no client-side calls to the CMS.
  • Admin panel — the site owner logs into PocketBase's admin UI (/admin, redirects to /_/) to write, edit and publish articles and categories. This is the only way content changes; there is no other CMS and no public user accounts.

One codebase, two runtime components (Nuxt frontend, PocketBase — CMS and database in one process), fronted by a single Caddy reverse proxy on one domain.