Herber Colop
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All the decisions of myself-app

ADR 0007

Hosting is deferred; the build stays host-neutral

Status
Accepted
Decided
Area
hosting

Read whena URL works in `next dev` but not in the export, or when choosing where the site is served from

The records are written in English.

  • Revised: 2026-09-24 by ADR 0013 — hosting is decided (CloudFront over a private bucket); serve-out now mirrors CloudFront, and a folder without its slash answers a 301

Context

The site will be served from S3, either through the S3 website endpoint or through CloudFront in front of a private bucket, and possibly defined as infrastructure as code. None of that is needed to build the pages, and the choice is better made when there is something worth publishing (M5).

Decision

Hosting is decided later. Until then, the export must work unchanged on either option:

  • trailingSlash: true, so /en/cv is written as en/cv/index.html.
  • A 404.html at the root of the export. The site has two root layouts — (root) for / and [locale] for every other page, so that <html lang> is each page's own — which leaves no single layout to compose a 404 from. It comes from app/global-not-found.tsx, which in Next 16.2 needs experimental.globalNotFound. If that flag is removed or renamed, the export still builds but loses its 404.html.
  • Served from the domain root — no basePath, no assetPrefix.
  • No redirects or rewrites in next.config (static export ignores them anyway).
  • / redirects in the page, with a <meta http-equiv="refresh">, since no server can answer with a redirect.

Locally, pnpm nx serve-out myself-app serves the export with tools/serve-static.mjs, which behaves like the host chosen in ADR 0013: path/ answers path/index.html, path answers a 301 to path/, and anything missing answers 404.html with status 404.

Consequences

  • A route that works under next dev but not under serve-out is a bug in the route, not in the server.
  • The hosting decision gets its own record, from #43: ADR 0013.