* fix: Facebook Page fetch missing New Pages Experience pages /me/accounts silently omits Pages that live under Meta's newer "New Pages Experience" / Business Portfolio model, even when the token's granular scopes show the Page was explicitly granted - confirmed via Meta's own Access Token Debugger against a live account whose Page returned zero results from /me/accounts but resolved fine when queried directly by ID. Falls back through Business Manager's owned_pages/client_pages (via the existing business_management scope) when /me/accounts comes back empty, so Pages under that model are still found. * fix: Instagram-via-Facebook has the same New Pages Experience gap Same root cause and fix as the FacebookController fetchPages() fallback - the Page/Instagram-linked-Page lookup goes through the same /me/accounts call and is subject to the same Meta-side gap. * refactor: one place finds every Page a Meta login can publish to Both controllers walked /me/accounts and, when it came back empty, the Business Portfolio edges behind it. ManagedPages now owns that walk for the Facebook and Instagram-via-Facebook flows alike. Three behaviour changes come with it: The portfolio edges are read on every connect, not only when /me/accounts is empty, and merged by Page id. Someone holding one Page by a classic role and the rest through a portfolio was auto-connected to that single Page and never offered the others. /me/businesses is read only once /me/permissions confirms the login granted business_management, and a failure anywhere along the portfolio walk leaves the /me/accounts list standing. It used to escape into the callback's catch, turning "no pages" into "could not connect" for every login without the scope. Pages the login cannot get an access_token for are dropped. Connecting one produces an account that cannot publish. * test: pin the Page a login only reaches through a portfolio Covers the merge with /me/accounts, the access_token filter, the business_management gate, and a failing portfolio edge leaving the /me/accounts list intact — plus the connect flow end to end on both Meta platforms. The Instagram-via-Facebook request count moves from five to six for the /me/permissions check. * refactor: read the portfolio edges without asking permission first The /me/permissions check saved a rejected /me/businesses call on logins without business_management, at the cost of running a path nobody had verified against a live account. The edges already fail soft, so the check bought log tidiness and nothing else. * test: cover the portfolio walk's remaining shapes The multi-Page selection flow behind a portfolio — the case #292 asked a maintainer to check — plus pages spread across two portfolios, a paginated edge, a portfolio entry with no id, and a portfolio page merging with one /me/accounts already returned. * test: stop the Meta connect tests from calling Graph for real Http::fake only stubs the URLs it is given; anything else goes out over the network. These files stubbed /me/accounts and left /me — and now /me/businesses — unstubbed, so the suite was issuing live requests to graph.facebook.com on every run. They came back 400 and the code under test swallowed them, so nothing ever went red while the assertions were measuring Meta's answer instead of the fixture's. Every Graph call the connect flow makes is stubbed now, and the files prevent stray requests so a missing one fails loudly. Inertia's SSR endpoint is allowed through; it is not what these tests are about. * fix: tell a denied portfolio edge apart from a throttled one GraphPaginator throws so no caller reads a failed fetch as an empty list and auto-connects whatever arrived first. Swallowing that exception on the portfolio edges gave the invariant away: a 429 on owned_pages left the merged list holding only the /me/accounts page, and the callback connected it with no picker. The exception now carries whether the failure was transient, classified by GraphError, which already owns Meta's rate-limit and transient code table. A denied permission reads as "this login reaches no portfolio pages"; a throttle, a 5xx or a truncated walk is raised. The walk also stops at MAX_PORTFOLIOS and logs what it skipped. Each portfolio costs two more paginated edges inside a synchronous OAuth callback, and nothing bounded that loop. * fix: three ways the portfolio walk misread what Meta returned Concurrent Instagram lookups. The Instagram description ran one request per Page, in sequence, at a 15s timeout each. That list used to be the Pages someone holds a role on — a handful. It is now the union with every portfolio's owned_pages and client_pages, so a portfolio holding hundreds of Pages serialised the OAuth callback past any gateway timeout, for exactly the accounts the portfolio walk exists to reach. Meta's ids= batching is no help: each Page carries its own access token and one call takes one token. The lookups run in concurrent rounds. A Page without a token is not a Page you don't have. Meta lets someone decline pages_read_engagement on its per-permission toggles and still lists the Page, without an access_token. Dropping it inside the walk left the caller saying "no Pages found, you need to be an admin of at least one" to an admin. ManagedPages returns everything Meta listed and publishable() separates what can be posted to, so the callbacks can tell the two apart and say which one happened. Stored scopes are what Meta granted. The scope list was written to the account's scopes column straight from the request, claiming access the login may have refused — business_management above all, which needs Advanced Access and is declined by default without it. It now comes from /me/permissions, falling back to the request when Meta cannot be asked. * fix: only drop a scope Meta says was refused PublishToSocialPlatform::failForMissingScopes() blocks a post when a platform's required publish scope is absent from the account's scopes column, so writing that column from /me/permissions can dead-end an account. Meta does not document that the endpoint echoes scope strings verbatim, and the edge is paginated, so a scope it never mentions is unknown rather than refused and stays. Only declined and expired drop. * fix: keep the portfolio walk honest and cheap Raise instead of truncating. The ceiling logged a warning and returned whatever fit, which is the one thing this module refuses to do everywhere else: if the walk cannot finish, the real list is unknown, and a truncated list holding exactly one Page would have been auto-connected without ever showing the picker. It now raises, and the ceiling rises to GraphPaginator::MAX_PAGES' 100 since the walk no longer pays for it serially. Read the edges concurrently. Up to two paginated edges per portfolio ran back to back inside the OAuth callback. They run in rounds now; a URL that does not come back cleanly still goes through GraphPaginator, which owns the single place that logs a Graph failure and decides whether it is a rejection or an unknown. Prefer the record that carries a token. Merging kept whichever copy of a Page id arrived first, and /me/accounts always arrives first — so a Page listed there without a token buried the portfolio copy that had one, and the login was told its permission was missing for a Page it could reach. Describe only the Instagram accounts that survive. The per-Page lookup ran before filterConnectableIdentities discarded them, spending a BUC-rate-limited call on every Page only to throw the answer away. The filter reads instagram_business_account.id straight off the raw Page, so it needs no lookup to run first. Two Instagram tests mocked Socialite without usingGraphVersion, so the callback threw, the generic catch answered, and asserting only success=false passed on the error path instead of the one under test. * test: pin that pages survive past the first pooled round The concurrency test drove 30 portfolios with every edge empty, so the merge across rounds was never exercised with data in it. * fix: keep the paging-host guard on the pooled edge walk GraphPaginator refuses to follow a paging.next that points off the host the walk started from, so a tampered response cannot carry the access token somewhere else. Reading the first page of each edge through the pool and handing its paging.next straight back to GraphPaginator made that URL the *start* of a new walk, which is the one URL the guard trusts implicitly — so the first hop went unchecked. The host is compared before the hand-off now, and a mismatch re-walks the edge from the beginning so GraphPaginator's own guard is what refuses it, with its logging. * fix: stop a cut-short walk from passing for a complete one optional() was written for "this edge may be forbidden" and answers a rejection with an empty list. Following paging.next through it gave a rejected cursor the same answer: page one of a 250-Page portfolio came back and the rest was dropped, and a single connectable Page in that fragment would have been auto-connected with no picker. The same hole sat on /me/businesses, where GraphPaginator is all-or-nothing — a failure on page two threw away the portfolios page one had already listed, degrading the connect back to /me/accounts alone in silence. The exception now carries how many pages arrived. Only a rejection on the very first request reads as "this edge is not readable"; anything after that is a fragment and raises. Cursors skip optional() entirely. A login Meta reports as refusing business_management also stops walking the edges at all. The controllers already read /me/permissions for the scopes column, so the answer costs nothing, and the walk was otherwise spending a request on a certain 403 — and logging it at error level — on every successful connect by such a login. An Instagram account with an empty Name connected as display_name null: data_get's default only fires on an absent key, and describeRound always writes the key. * test: pin reconnecting a card only the portfolio still reaches A card whose Page moved behind a portfolio is the reconnect shape of the bug this branch fixes, and nothing covered it: the walk has to find the Page, and filterConnectableIdentities has to keep the original card rather than offering the portfolio's other Pages. * fix: an unreadable portfolio must not deny the pages that were readable The portfolio edges are additive, but every failure in them was raised and the callback's generic catch turned it into "error connecting" — so one throttled edge among sixty denied a login the Pages /me/accounts had already returned, and each retry burned more of the quota that caused it. Only /me/accounts failing is fatal now; everything else marks the walk incomplete and keeps what arrived. What the raise was protecting is kept where it belongs: a lone Page is only taken without asking when the walk saw everything, or when a reconnect has already pinned which Page is wanted. Otherwise the picker opens, and the login can see for itself that its Page is not there. The ceiling stops pretending. It compared the count after walking every page of /me/businesses — up to ten thousand ids — so the runaway it existed to bound had already happened. One request, one page, and more portfolios than that is an incomplete walk rather than a failed one. A pooled edge that fails is classified where it lands instead of being re-fetched, halving the cost of the common client_pages rejection, and GraphPaginator logs a confirmed rejection at warning: it is Meta answering the question, not something going wrong. A login that declined the permission its platform needs to publish is refused at connect. Meta issues a Page token off pages_show_list, so declining pages_manage_posts still produced a green account whose every scheduled post was then hard-failed by failForMissingScopes. Test fakes address Graph through the config rather than a literal host, which is what CLAUDE.md asks for and what the newer tests already did. * fix: an incomplete walk must not answer as if it were sure Marking the walk incomplete stopped the auto-connect, but every dead end after it still gave a definitive answer. A login whose only Pages sit behind a throttled portfolio was told "no Facebook Pages found, you need to be an admin of at least one" — the exact sentence this branch exists to stop showing to admins, now arriving for a different reason. The already-connected and missing-permission answers were equally sure of themselves. When the walk could not see everything and there is nothing to offer, it says so and asks for a retry. * fix: stop every Inertia test from calling an SSR server inertia.ssr.enabled defaulted to true and nothing in phpunit.xml turned it off, so every test rendering an Inertia page issued a real request to the SSR endpoint. The project does not use SSR, so those calls only ever failed and fell back to client rendering — quietly, on every run. Defaulting it off is what the project already assumed, and it retires the allowStrayRequests hole the Meta connect tests were carrying to work around it. INERTIA_SSR_ENABLED still turns it back on. * fix: a taken slot is a fact, not a guess about the listing Routing every short listing to "try again in a moment" swallowed network_taken: a workspace that already holds its one Facebook account was told to retry, forever, whenever a portfolio edge was throttled. That answer comes from our own rows and does not depend on how far the walk got. all_connected and page_not_found do, and still yield. Also: an off-host cursor now stops the edge instead of re-reading page one, which cost a request and could follow an on-host cursor on the retry, quietly undoing the guard. Cursor follow-ups are budgeted, since they cannot be pooled and were the one unbounded serial path left. The exception's fetched count lost its last reader two commits ago and is gone. Comments trimmed throughout. * fix: bound the cursor walk by requests, and keep what it read MAX_CONTINUATIONS counted edges, not requests: each one then handed off to GraphPaginator, which follows up to a hundred more pages by itself. The budget the docblock promised was fifty times larger than it claimed. Cursors are now followed one budgeted request at a time, so the count means what it says, and pages already read survive a cut-off instead of being thrown away with the exception. A refused /me/businesses is no longer read as "this login has no portfolios". For a single edge a rejection answers the question; for the index of edges it means we could not look — and answering complete there auto-connected the one /me/accounts page while hiding every portfolio Page, which is this branch's own bug wearing a different hat. SSR goes back to its shipped default. Turning it off in config to quiet the test suite would have disabled it wherever it is actually started — docker/Dockerfile builds the bundle. phpunit.xml carries the switch now, next to PULSE, TELESCOPE and NIGHTWATCH, and CLAUDE.md records why. * refactor: one Meta connect flow instead of two kept in step by hand The Facebook and Instagram-via-Facebook callbacks ran the same twenty-five lines: the profile touch Meta's review wants, the granted-scope read and the publish-scope refusal, the page walk, and the answer for a walk with nothing to offer. They only matched because both were edited side by side, every round, which is a guarantee nobody should be making by hand. graphApi() moves to SocialController and reads the host by platform value, so it serves every network rather than the two that had copied it, and graphVersion() derives from it instead of reading config a second time. select() stays as it is. The two differ in the middle — different identity keys, different connect shapes — and folding them would be abstraction for its own sake. * fix: default Inertia SSR off, where this project already stands Nothing in the repo starts an SSR process, so the shipped default was describing a setup that does not exist. With it off the test env needs no override of its own, and CLAUDE.md records that turning it on means starting the process, not just flipping the env. * fix: one rule for a refused portfolio, and a clock on the walk Last round I made a refused /me/businesses mark the walk incomplete, on the argument that refusing the index means "we could not look". That was wrong in the case that matters most: an app without Advanced Access for business_management gets that refusal on every single connect, so every login on such an install lost auto-connect and every login without Pages was told to retry forever. Self-hosted in Live mode is exactly that. The rule that holds everywhere: a Page this login cannot enumerate is a Page it cannot get a token for, so it was never connectable, and the list of connectable Pages is complete. Only an unknown — a throttle, a hiccup, a budget or a ceiling — leaves the walk unable to vouch for itself. Index and edge now answer the same way, which is also what makes the two readable together. The per-request budgets were each bounded while their sum was not: ten pooled rounds plus twenty-five cursor requests can outlive nginx's fastcgi_read_timeout of 120s. The walk now carries a deadline and returns what it has. touchProfile exists only because Meta's review wants the call. It had no timeout and no guard, so a hung /me could stall the callback to the gateway timeout or fail a connect outright, over a response nobody reads. * docs: the walk's contract changed under its own docblock It still said any failure marks the walk incomplete, which stopped being true when a refusal became an answer. A docblock describing an invariant the code no longer holds is how this branch got two of its bugs. * fix: put the whole callback inside the budget it advertises meta_page_walk_seconds bounded the portfolio half of the walk and nothing else. /me/accounts could paginate a hundred pages at fifteen seconds each, and the Instagram lookups pooled in rounds that were themselves serial — a portfolio with three hundred linked Pages is fifteen rounds, after the walk had already spent its own budget. Both honour the deadline now. The lookups skip rather than drop: the Page still connects, only its handle and avatar arrive empty. The first request is always made; the budget bounds what comes after it. A Graph body that is valid JSON but not an object — a proxy answering "throttled" — reached GraphError::isTransient, whose parameter is ?array, and under strict_types raised a TypeError. That is an Error, so it walked past both callbacks' catch(\Exception) and 500'd the popup instead of showing a message. Refusing a login before any listing has happened no longer borrows the wording for "we found your Pages but not the permission to post to them". composer run dev no longer starts an SSR process for SSR that is off, and CLAUDE.md no longer claims nothing in the repo starts one, which composer.json contradicted. * fix: say what actually gets a Page token, per Meta's own reference The Page node reference is explicit: access_token is "only returned if the User making the request has a role (other than Live Contributor) on the Page". Being an admin of the portfolio that owns a Page lists it but does not grant that role, so the walk can surface Pages this login will never get a token for. The popup told those users to reconnect and accept every permission, which cannot produce a Page role and so could never work. It now names the role as well. I rejected this in review on the grounds that a portfolio Page had been published to successfully in the wild. That proved a token comes back when the login holds a role, not that one always does. * fix: one budget for the callback, not one per phase of it The walk and the Instagram lookups each opened a full meta_page_walk_seconds, on top of the profile touch and the permission read, so the callback's worst case was several times the single bounded budget config/trypost.php advertises. They share one deadline now, taken once and passed down. META_PAGE_WALK_SECONDS joins .env.example. An Instagram account described past that deadline arrived with no handle and no name, and a lone one was then persisted with display_name null — a blank, unidentifiable card. It falls back to the Page's own name. Two docblocks were describing behaviour the code does not have. /me/accounts is the base every other Page is added to, so running out of budget there aborts rather than degrades, and the class now says so instead of promising a partial list. GrantedPermissions justified treating an absent permission as unknown but said nothing about a failed request, which lands in the same place for a different reason. * fix: a Pages throttle on a user token was reading as a refusal Meta's BUC rate-limit table lists code 32 for the Pages API when called with a User token. GraphError did not carry it, because until this branch nothing in the app called a Pages surface that way — the publishers use Page tokens, where the same throttle arrives as 80001. The portfolio walk does: /me/accounts, /me/businesses and both edges are read with the user token straight out of OAuth. So an ordinary throttle came back as code 32, was classified as a confirmed rejection, and the walk concluded this login simply reaches no portfolio Pages — vouching for a list missing all of them and auto-connecting whatever /me/accounts happened to hold. A rate limit was producing the exact silence the complete flag exists to prevent. * fix: a reconnect no longer loses its handle to a slow Graph persistIdentity updates a reconnected card with whatever it is handed, so a described-with-nulls card overwrote a working account's username and avatar. Skipping the Instagram lookup — which the shared budget now does whenever the walk spent it — produced exactly that card. A lookup that never ran says nothing about a handle the account already has, so those two keys are left out when it did not. Refusing the portfolio index goes back to marking the walk incomplete. I had it that way, reversed it, and this settles it: Meta's Page reference returns access_token for a Page the login holds a role on, and a Page can carry that token on a portfolio edge while /me/accounts omits it — which is this branch's entire premise. So refusing one edge does say those Pages are unreachable, but refusing the index says no edge was read at all, and the Pages behind it may well have been connectable. Silently vouching for a list without them is the original bug. The budget also starts before the walk and now shapes each request's own timeout, so no single call can outlive it by fifteen seconds. composer dev:ssr was a slower alias of composer dev once the SSR process came out of it. --------- Co-authored-by: StoriaJames <james@storia.tech>
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Laravel Boost Guidelines
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Foundational Context
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=== boost rules ===
Laravel Boost
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Inertia
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=== laravel/core rules ===
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=== wayfinder/core rules ===
Laravel Wayfinder
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=== pint/core rules ===
Laravel Pint Code Formatter
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=== pest/core rules ===
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=== inertia-vue/core rules ===
Inertia + Vue
Vue components must have a single root element.
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Project-Specific Rules
Frontend (Vue/TypeScript)
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Inertia SSR
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config/inertia.phpdefaultsssr.enabledtofalseand nothing in the repo setsINERTIA_SSR_ENABLED. - Keep it off. With it on, every test rendering an Inertia page issues a real HTTP request to the SSR endpoint, which fails silently and falls back to client rendering — slow, and it hides missing
Http::fake()stubs. - The build wiring is still shipped (
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Dialogs
- In
<DialogFooter>, put the primary action button first in the markup, then secondary/cancel (e.g. Save → Cancel).DialogFooterusesflex-colon mobile (primary on top, cancel at the bottom) andsm:flex-row sm:justify-starton desktop, so the first child is the leftmost action on larger screens. - Match sibling dialogs in the same feature area before inventing a new footer layout.
AI agents (app/Ai/Agents)
- Never embed prompts in PHP (
<<<PROMPT, heredocs, or long string literals ininstructions()). - Put system/instruction text in Blade under
resources/views/prompts/(e.g.prompts.post_content.generator,prompts.post_image.regenerator). - In
instructions(), returnview('prompts....', [...])->render()and pass only the variables the Blade file needs — same pattern asPostContentStreamer,PostContentReviewer, andBrandAnalyzer.
System AI (always allowed, never metered)
- The brand analyzer / workspace autofill (
App\Services\Brand\BrandAnalyzerRunner,App\Actions\Ai\AutofillBrand,WorkspaceController::autofillBrand) is a system feature, not the user's AI usage. It runs during workspace creation, before the user has AI access. - It MUST always be allowed: NEVER gate it behind the
useAipolicy, an active subscription, or a credit check. - It MUST NOT deduct anything: NEVER call
RecordAiUsage(or otherwise consume the account's credits) for brand analysis. Cost is the platform's, not the user's. - Any future "system" AI helper (runs as part of the platform, not on behalf of a workspace's metered quota) follows the same rule: ungated and unmetered.
Stripe Checkout (env knobs)
Checkout options are configured only via env — do not hardcode trial/coupon/promo behavior in controllers. All of it goes through App\Support\Billing\ConfigureSubscriptionCheckout (called from StartSubscriptionCheckout).
| Env | Config | Default | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
REQUIRE_CARD_FOR_TRIAL |
trypost.billing.require_card_for_trial |
true |
true: app access only after Stripe Checkout (no generic signup trial). false: generic accounts.trial_ends_at trial without a card |
CASHIER_TRIAL_DAYS |
cashier.trial_days |
8 |
Card-required Checkout: trialDays(N) for first-time subscribers when no first-month coupon is applied (0 = off). Re-subscribers skip trial. No-card mode: length of the generic signup trial |
STRIPE_FIRST_MONTH_COUPON_ID |
cashier.first_month_coupon_id |
empty | Optional. When set for a qualifying first-time single-workspace checkout, applies withCoupon and skips trial. Empty = trial mode |
CASHIER_ALLOW_PROMOTION_CODES |
cashier.allow_promotion_codes |
false |
When true and no coupon is applied, show the Checkout promo-code field |
Standing constraints:
- Stripe rejects
discounts(coupon) andallow_promotion_codeson the same session — if both would apply,ConfigureSubscriptionCheckoutmust throw (fail loud). Never “prefer one silently.” Envs may both be set when the account does not qualify for the coupon (no throw). - A set first-month coupon wins over trial (
trialDaysis skipped for that checkout). - Empty coupon + card required + first-time must use
trialDays— do not reintroduce a required-coupon throw. - Coupon qualification stays: card required, exactly one workspace, no prior real subscription (
incomplete/incomplete_expiredstill qualify). - Prefer documenting durable billing decisions here (and in
AGENTS.md) — do not create a.ai/rules folder for this project.
Multiple social accounts per network
One connected identity per social network per workspace is the Cloud default. This is not tied to SELF_HOSTED — Cloud cannot flip that flag, but it can flip this one.
| Env | Config | Default | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
ALLOW_MULTIPLE_SOCIAL_ACCOUNTS |
trypost.allow_multiple_social_accounts |
false (falls back to SELF_HOSTED when unset) |
true: a workspace may connect more than one account of the same network (two LinkedIns, two Instagrams, …). false: one per network (LinkedIn profile + page count as one; Instagram standalone + Instagram-via-Facebook count as one). Reconnecting the same platform + platform_user_id still updates the existing row. Shared to Inertia as allowMultipleSocialAccounts. |
Self-hosted compose / .env.example set this true. When the env is unset, the config falls back to SELF_HOSTED so existing self-hosted installs keep multiple accounts. Do not use selfHosted for the occupancy check (observer, Telegram connect, NetworkConnectGrid).
Icons (@tabler/icons-vue)
- This project uses
@tabler/icons-vuefor all icons. NEVER uselucide-vue-next. - All Tabler icons are prefixed with
Icon, e.g.IconCheck,IconChevronRight,IconMail. - Import icons from
@tabler/icons-vue:import { IconCheck, IconX } from '@tabler/icons-vue'. - Browse available icons at https://tabler.io/icons
Dates
- For date manipulation, always use
@/dayjs(pre-configured dayjs instance with utc, timezone, relativeTime plugins). - For formatting dates for display (formatDate, formatDateTime, formatTime, diffForHumans), always use
@/datewhich centralizes all formatting logic with proper timezone handling. - Never use raw
new Date()for date calculations — use dayjs.
Routing (Wayfinder)
- This project uses Laravel Wayfinder for type-safe frontend routing.
- ALWAYS use Wayfinder-generated route helpers in Vue pages (e.g.
register(),login(),dashboard()). NEVER hardcode URL strings likehref="/register". - After creating or modifying PHP routes/controllers, run
php artisan wayfinder:generateto regenerate the TypeScript route helpers. - Import routes from
@/routes/...(e.g.import { store } from '@/routes/login').
Pagination
- Always use normal pagination (
->paginate()). NEVER use cursor pagination (->cursorPaginate()). - All paginated lists must use Inertia's scroll pagination (
Inertia::scroll()on the backend with<InfiniteScroll>on the frontend). NEVER use traditional page-based pagination with page links/buttons. - The page size ALWAYS comes from
config('app.pagination.default')— never a magic number, and never aperPage/per_pagevalue supplied by the request or frontend. Action/service list methods must NOT accept a$perPageparameter; call->paginate((int) config('app.pagination.default'))directly.- The only exception is the public REST API (
app/Http/Controllers/Api), which uses its own fixed, documented page size (15) as a stable API contract.
- The only exception is the public REST API (
Form Validation
- NEVER use HTML5 validation attributes (
required,minlength,pattern, etc.) on form inputs. Always rely solely on backend validation.
Backend Validation
- Validation rules always live in a dedicated
Illuminate\Foundation\Http\FormRequestsubclass underapp/Http/Requests/App/<Group>/. Controller actions must type-hint the FormRequest as the parameter — NEVER call$request->validate([...])inline in the controller. - Naming:
<Verb><Resource>Request.php(e.g.StorePostRequest,UpdatePostRequest,LinkPreviewRequest).
Per-Platform Post Meta (PostPlatform.meta)
- All
platforms.*.metavalidation (the parent array rule AND every per-platform sub-key:aspect_ratio, TikTokprivacy_level/flags, Pinterestboard_id, Discordchannel_id/mentions/embeds, etc.) lives in ONE place:App\Support\PostPlatformMetaRules.- Every post create/update entry point — web (
App\Http\Requests\App\Post\UpdatePostRequest), public API (App\Http\Requests\Api\Post\{Store,Update}PostRequest), and MCP (App\Mcp\Tools\Post\{Create,Update}PostTool) — spreads...PostPlatformMetaRules::rules(). NEVER add a per-platform meta rule inline to a single request/tool. - Why:
FormRequest::validated()(and MCP$request->validate()) STRIPS any key without a rule. A meta field defined in only one entry point is silently dropped everywhere else — which is exactly how Discord/Pinterest/TikTok meta was lost via API/MCP before this was centralized.
- Every post create/update entry point — web (
- Required-on-publish (meta a platform needs to publish, e.g. Discord
channel_id) also lives there:addRequiredOnPublishErrors()for request-driven flows (web/API updatewithValidator),assertStoredPostPublishable()for flows that publish stored state without resubmitting platforms (MCPPublishPostTool). Add new required-meta rules torequiredMetaViolation(), not inline. - When adding a new platform's meta field, add it (and any publish requirement) to
PostPlatformMetaRulesONLY, and cover it intests/Feature/Api/PostApiPlatformMetaTest.php+tests/Feature/Mcp/PostPlatformMetaToolTest.php.
Media Types (image / video / document)
- A media item is one of exactly three types: image, video, document (PDF). There is no standalone "audio" media type (audio exists only as a video voiceover input).
- Media-type detection lives in ONE place per side — NEVER hand-write
type === 'image',mime_type === 'application/pdf',mime.startsWith('video/'), or extension checks inline.- Backend:
App\Enums\Media\Type—classify(),fromMime(),fromExtension(),isGif(), plus theallowedMimeTypes()/extensions()allow-lists. Use these, never a raw MIME/extension comparison. - Frontend:
resources/js/lib/mediaType.ts— the mirror of the backend enum: theMediaTypeunion,classify(),fromMimeType()(for a browserFile.type),fromExtension(),isImage()/isVideo()/isDocument()/isGif().@/composables/useMediare-exportsisImageMedia/isVideoMedia/isDocumentMediaaliases for legacy call sites. - Detection trusts the explicit
typefirst, then the MIME, then the filename extension — so an item with only a MIME (e.g. AI/Unsplash/Giphy media without atype) still classifies correctly. A bareitem.type === 'image'(with av-elsevideo) silently mis-renders those.
- Backend:
- The
typefield on every media-ish interface is theMediaTypeunion, neverstring—MediaItem, and any sibling picked/asset/saved shape (PickedMedia,AssetMedia,SavedMedia, etc.). - The upload
acceptattribute for "everything we allow" comes fromacceptAttribute()(frontend) /Media\Type::allowedMimeTypes()(backend) — never a hardcoded MIME list. Per-capabilityacceptbuilders driven by content-type rules (e.g.image/*,video/*) are fine; those aren't detection.
Pest / Feature Tests
- ALWAYS use named routes via the
route()helper in feature tests. NEVER hardcode URL strings like'/posts/ai/create'.- Example:
$this->postJson(route('app.posts.store'))instead of$this->postJson('/posts'). - With params:
route('app.posts.ai.create.finalize', $creationId).
- Example:
Browser Tests (Pest + Playwright)
Browser tests live in tests/Browser and run on pestphp/pest-plugin-browser driving Playwright. Laravel Dusk is not installed — there is no DuskTestCase, no $browser object, and no browse(). Do not add dusk="..." attributes; they select nothing.
- ALWAYS use named routes via
route(). NEVER hardcode URLs like'https://trypost.test/login'.- Example:
visit(route('login')).
- Example:
- ALWAYS target elements by
data-testid. NEVER use CSS classes (.text-red-600), tag names, or text strings.@my-elementresolves to[data-testid="my-element"], so adddata-testid="my-element"in the Vue component and use$page->click('@my-element').- Bind it for repeated elements:
:data-testid="connect-${platform.value}".
- Assertions do NOT auto-wait on SPA paint. Wait for the element to mount and lay out first — see the
waitFor*TestId()helper at the top oftests/Browser/WelcomeConnectTest.phpand copy the pattern under a file-unique name (these helpers are global functions; a duplicated name collides across test files). BrowserTestCasesets$fakesVite = falseon purpose: these tests load real built assets, so faking Vite blanks the app.- End page assertions with
->assertNoJavaScriptErrors(). - CI runs them un-parallelised (
php artisan test tests/Browser --compact) againstnpm run buildoutput, so keep them independent of a running dev server.
Array Data Access
- In Action classes and similar service classes, ALWAYS use Laravel's
data_get()helper instead of direct array access.- Example:
data_get($data, 'name')instead of$data['name']. - Use the third parameter for fallback values:
data_get($data, 'username', $sender->username)instead of$data['username'] ?? $sender->username.
- Example:
Eloquent Models & Morph Map
- EVERY Eloquent model in
app/ModelsMUST be registered inRelation::enforceMorphMap([...])insideAppServiceProvider::configureMorphMap(), keyed by a camelCase alias (e.g.'postPlatform' => PostPlatform::class). - When you add a new model, add it to the morph map in the same change.
tests/Unit/MorphMapTest.phpfails if any model is missing. - The alias is persisted in polymorphic columns, so never rename or remove an existing alias for a model that has stored rows.
Imports
- NEVER use inline class references (e.g.,
\DB::listen,\Str::uuid()). ALWAYS import classes at the top of the file with ausestatement.- PHP:
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;thenDB::listen(...) - TypeScript/Vue:
import { ref } from 'vue'thenref(...)
- PHP:
API Response Status Codes
- When returning JSON responses with explicit status codes, always use
Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Responseconstants instead of magic numbers.- Example:
Response::HTTP_CREATEDinstead of201,Response::HTTP_NO_CONTENTinstead of204.
- Example:
String Interpolation
- When injecting variables into strings, prefer double-quoted interpolation with curly braces over concatenation with
..- PHP:
"workspace.{$workspace->id}"instead of'workspace.'.$workspace->id. - Use curly braces
{}even for simple variables to keep the boundary explicit and to allow object/array access without ambiguity. - Single quotes are still preferred when the string has no interpolation.
- PHP:
External Service URLs
- NEVER hardcode third-party API hosts, OAuth endpoints, or per-platform service URLs (e.g.
https://api.x.com/2,https://www.linkedin.com/oauth/v2/accessToken,https://bsky.social). They live inconfig/trypost.phpunderplatforms.<name>with a matchingenv(...)default, so self-hosted users can override them and we have a single source of truth.- Production code:
config('trypost.platforms.linkedin.oauth_api').'/oauth/v2/accessToken', never the literal URL. - Tests: use the same
config(...)value inHttp::fake([...])—Http::fake([config('trypost.platforms.x.api').'/oauth2/token' => ...]). Tests with hardcoded URLs drift silently when the config changes. - Path/route segments after the host (e.g.
/oauth/v2/accessToken,/xrpc/com.atproto.server.refreshSession) are part of the provider's protocol spec — those stay inline next to the call. Only the host comes from config.
- Production code:
Social Platform API Documentation (official sources)
Always consult the official docs below before implementing or changing OAuth, publishing, deletion, rate-limit, or any other platform-specific behavior — never guess endpoints, scopes, rate limits, or capabilities from memory. APIs shift over time; a behavior confirmed in a past session may no longer hold. One entry per social network we integrate with:
- Facebook / Instagram / Threads (Meta): all three share the Graph API error format (
error.code,error.type).- General error handling / codes 1, 2, 4, 17, 190: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/guides/error-handling/
- Rate limiting — Platform Rate Limits (app/user tokens, codes 4/17) vs. Business Use Case (BUC) Rate Limits (Page/system-user tokens, codes 80000–80014 — e.g.
80001Pages API,80002Instagram Platform; BUC rejections come back as plain HTTP 400, not 429): https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/overview/rate-limiting/ - Instagram content-publishing error codes: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-platform/instagram-graph-api/reference/error-codes/
- Instagram media reference (incl.
DELETE): https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-platform/reference/instagram-media/ - Threads API: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/threads — reuses the Graph API error format; no separate Threads-specific error code table exists. Delete posts (needs the separate
threads_deletepermission, 100 deletes/day/account): https://developers.facebook.com/docs/threads/posts/delete-posts/ - Our
App\Services\Social\Meta\GraphError(used byConnectionVerifier's verify/refresh calls) has the full rationale and code table in its class docblock — check there before changing transient-vs-confirmed-rejection classification. Facebook/InstagramFacebookSocialAccounts use a Facebook Page access token (BUC-limited);Instagram(direct login) andThreadsuse a user access token (Platform Rate Limit-limited). This affects which rate-limit codes apply to which platform.
- X (Twitter): API v2 — https://docs.x.com/x-api ; Post management (create/delete) — https://docs.x.com/x-api/posts/manage-tweets/introduction
- LinkedIn: Posts API (create/update/delete, member + organization) — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/posts-api (replaces the deprecated
ugcPostsAPI) - Mastodon: Statuses API — https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/statuses/
- Pinterest: API v5 reference — https://developers.pinterest.com/docs/api/v5/
- YouTube: Data API v3 — https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs
- TikTok: Content Posting API — https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-reference-direct-post — no delete/unpublish endpoint exists; a published post can only be removed manually inside the TikTok app
- Bluesky / AT Protocol: official lexicons — https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/tree/main/lexicons/com/atproto/repo ; HTTP API reference — https://docs.bsky.app
- Discord: Webhook resource (used for our webhook-based publishing) — https://docs.discord.com/developers/resources/webhook
- Telegram: Bot API — https://core.telegram.org/bots/api
TryPost.it Documentation
- All our documentation to final user it's under https://docs.trypost.it
Git
- NEVER add
Co-Authored-Bylines to commit messages. - NEVER commit, push, or open PRs unless explicitly asked by the user.
- Always create a new branch for feature work before making changes.