Build error and timing

[benmed00]

Build Error Resolution & Build Performance Monitoring

🎯 Overview

This PR addresses critical build errors that were preventing successful Next.js builds and introduces build performance monitoring to help identify optimization opportunities. The changes ensure production-ready builds while providing visibility into build performance metrics.

🔗 Linked Issues

🔗 Resolved Issues

This PR resolves the following issues:

Closes #77 - Fix Next.js build errors: Dynamic server usage warnings
Closes #78 - Add build performance monitoring and timing

🔍 Context

Problem Statement

1. Build Errors: Multiple API routes were causing "Dynamic server usage" build errors due to implicit dynamic behavior when using getServerSession()
2. Performance Visibility: No visibility into build duration, making it difficult to identify performance bottlenecks
3. Developer Experience: Build failures were blocking deployments without clear error messages

Impact

• ❌ Build failures preventing deployments
• ❌ Unclear build performance metrics
• ❌ Developer time wasted on debugging build issues

✨ Changes Made

1. Build Error Resolution

Fixed "Dynamic server usage" errors by explicitly marking API routes as dynamic:

Added export const dynamic = 'force-dynamic' to 5 API routes that use getServerSession():

• src/app/api/equipment/maintenance/route.ts
• src/app/api/notifications/preferences/route.ts
• src/app/api/search/route.ts
• src/app/api/species/observations/route.ts
• src/app/api/species/with-locations/route.ts

Rationale: These routes inherently require dynamic server-side rendering due to authentication checks. Explicitly marking them prevents Next.js from attempting static optimization and eliminates build warnings/errors.

2. Build Performance Monitoring

Introduced build timing script (scripts/time-build.js):

• Measures total build duration
• Displays build time in human-readable format (minutes and seconds)
• Provides clear success/failure indicators
• Integrated into package.json build script

Benefits:

• 📊 Track build performance over time
• 🎯 Identify performance regressions
• ⚡ Optimize build process based on metrics
• 📈 Monitor CI/CD pipeline performance

3. Code Quality Improvements

• ✅ Resolved merge conflicts with latest main branch
• ✅ Removed empty test files that were causing test suite failures
• ✅ Ensured all linting and type checks pass
• ✅ Maintained consistency with existing codebase patterns

🔗 Related Work

Related PRs

• PR feat: Implement Critical Priorities - Testing, Performance, Security, Export & Search #76: Implemented performance optimizations (caching, pagination) that complement this work
  • This PR ensures the build process works correctly with those optimizations
  • Both PRs contribute to the v1.3 - Quality & Polish milestone

Milestone

• v1.3 - Quality & Polish (Milestone chore(deps): bump softprops/action-gh-release from 1 to 2 #4): This PR contributes to overall code quality and developer experience improvements
  • Build error resolution improves code quality
  • Build performance monitoring enhances developer experience

Related Issues

• Resolves build errors that were blocking deployments
• Addresses lack of build performance visibility
• Fixes "Dynamic server usage" warnings in Next.js build process

Branch Hierarchy

• Base: main (latest)
• Branch: cursor/build-error-and-timing-85ee
• Status: Rebased and up-to-date with main

🧪 Testing

Test Coverage

• ✅ All existing unit tests pass
• ✅ Integration tests pass
• ✅ Linting and type checking pass
• ✅ Build completes successfully

Manual Testing

1. Build Process:

   npm run build

   • ✅ Build completes without errors
   • ✅ Build time is displayed correctly
   • ✅ Success/failure indicators work

2. API Routes:

   • ✅ All 5 modified routes build without warnings
   • ✅ Routes function correctly in development and production
   • ✅ Authentication checks work as expected

📊 Metrics & Impact

Before

• ❌ Build failures due to dynamic server usage warnings
• ❌ No build performance visibility
• ❌ Unclear error messages

After

• ✅ Clean builds without errors or warnings
• ✅ Build performance metrics available
• ✅ Clear success/failure indicators
• ✅ Improved developer experience

🚀 Deployment Notes

Breaking Changes

• None: All changes are backward compatible

Migration Steps

• No migration required
• Build script automatically uses new timing functionality

Rollback Plan

• Revert package.json build script to next build if needed
• Remove export const dynamic = 'force-dynamic' from routes (not recommended as it will reintroduce build errors)

📝 Code Quality

Standards Met

• ✅ Follows project coding standards
• ✅ TypeScript types are correct
• ✅ ESLint rules pass
• ✅ No console.logs or debug code
• ✅ Proper error handling
• ✅ Code is self-documenting

Files Changed

• 26 files modified/added
• +1,082 additions
• -712 deletions

Key Files

• scripts/time-build.js - New build timing script
• package.json - Updated build script
• 5 API route files - Added dynamic export
• Multiple client page components - Server to client conversion

✅ Checklist

• Code follows project style guidelines
• Self-review completed
• Code is commented where necessary
• No new warnings generated
• Tests pass locally
• No sensitive data included
• No debug code left in
• Build completes successfully
• Linting passes
• Type checking passes

👥 Reviewers

@benmed00 - Please review for:

• Build error resolution approach
• Build timing script implementation
• Overall code quality and standards

📚 Additional Notes

Technical Details

Why force-dynamic?
Next.js attempts to statically optimize API routes by default. However, routes using getServerSession() require dynamic server-side execution because:

1. Authentication state is determined at request time
2. Session data is user-specific and cannot be pre-rendered
3. Database queries depend on authenticated user context

Explicitly marking these routes as force-dynamic tells Next.js to skip static optimization, eliminating build warnings and ensuring correct runtime behavior.

Build Timing Script
The script uses Node.js child_process.spawn() to execute the Next.js build and measure duration. It provides:

• Real-time build output (stdio: 'inherit')
• Accurate timing (millisecond precision)
• Human-readable output format
• Proper exit code propagation

🔄 Future Improvements

Potential enhancements for future PRs:

• Add build performance tracking/trending
• Integrate build metrics into CI/CD dashboards
• Add build cache optimization
• Consider incremental builds for faster development

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🔗 Explicit Links & Metadata

Related PRs

• Related to PR feat: Implement Critical Priorities - Testing, Performance, Security, Export & Search #76: feat: Implement Critical Priorities - Performance optimizations (caching, pagination) that complement this work
• Related to PR Global entity search implementation #75: Global entity search implementation - Search functionality that uses dynamic routes fixed in this PR

Milestone

• v1.3 - Quality & Polish (Milestone chore(deps): bump softprops/action-gh-release from 1 to 2 #4): View Milestone
  • This PR contributes to overall code quality and developer experience improvements
  • Build error resolution improves code quality
  • Build performance monitoring enhances developer experience

Branch Information

• Base Branch: main (commit: 01b3ac8)
• Head Branch: cursor/build-error-and-timing-85ee (commit: e61080a)
• Status: Up-to-date with main, ready for merge

Related Issues

This PR addresses build errors and performance monitoring needs. Related issues in the v1.3 milestone:

• Performance monitoring and build optimization needs
• Build error resolution requirements

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Type: 🐛 Bug Fix + ✨ Feature
Priority: High
Module: Core Infrastructure
Milestone: v1.3 - Quality & Polish

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🔗 Explicit Links

Related PRs

• Related to PR feat: Implement Critical Priorities - Testing, Performance, Security, Export & Search #76: Implement Critical Priorities - Performance optimizations that complement this work
• Related to PR Global entity search implementation #75: Global entity search implementation - Search functionality that uses dynamic routes

Milestone

• v1.3 - Quality & Polish (Milestone chore(deps): bump softprops/action-gh-release from 1 to 2 #4): This PR contributes to overall code quality and developer experience improvements

Branch Information

• Base Branch: main
• Head Branch: cursor/build-error-and-timing-85ee
• Status: Up-to-date with main, ready for merge

Related Issues

This PR addresses build errors and performance monitoring needs. Related issues may be found in the project board under the v1.3 milestone.

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Type: 🐛 Bug Fix + ✨ Feature
Priority: High
Module: Core Infrastructure
Milestone: v1.3 - Quality & Polish

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