# Robot U Site Agent Guide

## Purpose

This repository contains the Robot U community site.

It is a thin application layer over Forgejo:

- Forgejo is the source of truth for authentication, public content repos, and issue-backed discussions.
- This app provides the web UI, course/lesson browsing, markdown rendering, and ICS calendar ingestion.
- The current live Forgejo instance is `https://aksal.cloud`.

## Stack

- Backend: FastAPI
- Frontend: Preact + TypeScript + Vite
- Python tooling: `uv`, `ruff`
- Frontend tooling: `bun`, Biome

## Important Files

- `app.py`: FastAPI app and SPA/static serving
- `live_prototype.py`: live payload assembly for courses, lessons, discussions, and events
- `forgejo_client.py`: Forgejo API client
- `calendar_feeds.py`: ICS/webcal feed loading and parsing
- `settings.py`: env-driven runtime settings
- `frontend/src/App.tsx`: client routes and page composition
- `frontend/src/MarkdownContent.tsx`: safe markdown renderer used in lessons and discussions
- `scripts/start.sh`: main startup command for local runs

## Repo Layout Notes

- The root repository is the site application.
- `examples/quadrature-encoder-course/` is a separate nested git repo used as sample content. It is intentionally ignored by the root repo and should stay that way.

## First-Time Setup

### Python

```bash
python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
```

### Frontend

```bash
cd frontend
~/.bun/bin/bun install
```

## Environment

Runtime configuration is loaded from shell env, then `.env`, then `.env.local` through `scripts/start.sh`.

Recommended local flow:

```bash
cp .env.example .env
```

Useful variables:

- `FORGEJO_BASE_URL=https://aksal.cloud`
- `FORGEJO_TOKEN=...`
- `CALENDAR_FEED_URLS=webcal://...`
- `HOST=0.0.0.0`
- `PORT=8800`

Notes:

- `FORGEJO_TOKEN` is required for live repo and discussion reads on `aksal.cloud`.
- `CALENDAR_FEED_URLS` is optional and accepts comma-separated `webcal://` or `https://` ICS feeds.
- Do not commit `.env` or `.env.local`.

## Main Start Command

Use this for the normal local app flow:

```bash
./scripts/start.sh
```

What it does:

1. Loads `.env` and `.env.local` if present.
2. Builds the frontend with `bun`.
3. Starts FastAPI with `uvicorn`.

Override host/port when needed:

```bash
HOST=0.0.0.0 PORT=8800 ./scripts/start.sh
```

## Development Commands

### Backend only

```bash
.venv/bin/python -m uvicorn app:app --reload
```

### Frontend only

```bash
cd frontend
~/.bun/bin/bun run dev
```

### Frontend production build

```bash
cd frontend
~/.bun/bin/bun run build
```

## Quality Checks

Run both before pushing:

```bash
./scripts/check_python_quality.sh
./scripts/check_frontend_quality.sh
```

## Product/Data Model Background

- Public non-fork repos are scanned.
- A repo with `/lessons/` is treated as a course repo.
- A repo with `/blogs/` is treated as a post repo.
- Lessons are discovered from `lessons/<chapter>/<lesson>/`.
- Each lesson folder is expected to contain one markdown file plus optional assets.
- Frontmatter is used when present for `title` and `summary`.
- Discussions are loaded from Forgejo issues and comments.
- Calendar events are loaded from ICS feeds, not managed in-app.

## UI Expectations

- The UI should not expose Forgejo as a user-facing implementation detail unless necessary for debugging.
- Course cards should open course pages.
- Lesson rows should open lesson pages.
- Discussion pages should focus on one thread at a time.
- Markdown should render as readable content, not raw source.

## Push Workflow

The site source repo currently lives at:

- `git@aksal.cloud:Robot-U/robot-u-site.git`

Typical push flow:

```bash
git status
git add ...
git commit -m "..."
git push origin main
```