portal

The question runtime behind uhhm.no. Every page, form, review desk, and state machine it serves is declared in the questions content repo — this codebase is the engine that renders, enforces, and records, and it special-cases none of it.

What the engine provides

• Content-driven pages (src/content.rs, src/app.rs): YAML loaded from Gitea at boot and hot-swapped on a NATS reload signal; a bad push keeps the last-good content serving. A page's id is its URL; qualifies gates it to a Kanidm group.
• State machines as content (src/aggregates/): aggregates.yaml declares each bucket's states and legal transitions; the engine replays a record's event history and refuses undeclared moves, with optimistic concurrency (CAS on the event log's sequence) against racing decisions. An empty history reseeds from the KV projection, so wiping the event stream strands nothing.
• Durable events + projections (src/events/, src/answers.rs): every submission and decision appends to a JetStream event log and projects into a NATS KV bucket pages read back; every one also publishes on portal.answers.submitted for automations (n8n) to react to.
• Answer chains (src/chain.rs): each submission hashes its parent(s), so a visitor's path through the questions is a verifiable lineage; ?chain= links carry it, and self-service transitions (unsubscribe) authorize by holding one.
• Live resources (src/resource.rs): content can pull a KV bucket, Gitea starred/org repos, or any public JSON URL (SSRF fail-closed), reshaped by a content-declared jq filter.
• Review desks: any Kv resource with transitions renders rows with per-state action buttons and one shared confirm per alternative — owners walk records through their graphs without bespoke UI per bucket.

Binaries

• portal — the server (Leptos SSR + hydrate, Axum underneath).
• question_lint — headless content validation, run by the questions repo's CI against a prebuilt copy this repo's deploy publishes; also works offline: question_lint --path <dir>.

Development

cargo leptos build            # full app (server + wasm)
cargo test --features ssr     # engine tests
cargo build --features ssr --bin question_lint

Runtime configuration is env vars (see src/main.rs and .gitea/workflows/deploy.yml): NATS_URL, CONTENT_REPO/ CONTENT_BRANCH, Kanidm OIDC (KANIDM_URL, OAUTH2_CLIENT_*), optional GARAGE_* for uploads, GITEA_API_TOKEN for authenticated resource pulls, AUTOMATION_READ_TOKEN for the automation KV read endpoint.

Deploy

Pushing main triggers .gitea/workflows/deploy.yml on the bare-metal runner: release build, ship to /srv/app/uhhm-portal/releases/<sha>, flip the current symlink, restart app@uhhm-portal, reload Caddy. Content changes never come through here — they hot-reload live from the questions repo.