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Architecture

DevDocs Portal is intentionally structured as a production-style frontend documentation product. The architecture favors typed content, deterministic rendering, and predictable release operations.

Content model

Typed docs dataset in src/data/docs.ts with tags, outcomes, callouts, and related links.

Routing

App Router pages for landing, docs catalog, dynamic article routes, changelog, and resources.

Components

Reusable UI and layout modules in src/components with docs-specific and landing-specific blocks.

Search/filter layer

Client-side filtering and sorting in DocsExplorer backed by a typed filter utility.

SEO layer

Metadata API, sitemap generation, robots output, and canonical URL configuration.

Deployment layer

Build verification and PM2 runtime restart with smoke-test endpoint checks.

Technical decisions and tradeoffs

  • • Content is stored as typed in-repo data for speed and deterministic builds; tradeoff is manual editorial updates.
  • • Search/filter is client-side to keep the demo self-contained; tradeoff is limited scalability compared with indexed search backends.
  • • PM2 runtime flow is explicit for VPS portability; tradeoff is additional operational discipline during deploys.