ActiveStarted October 2025· Updated June 2026

zaki-ns CMS Architecture Lab

This lab documents the architecture decisions behind the zaki-ns Platform—Prisma schema design, JSON seed pipelines, withDbFallback getters, and revalidateTag patterns that keep admin edits visible on the public site without redeploying.

Experiment signals

Prisma models: 50+
Content aggregates: 10
Public locales: 2

Next.jsPrismaPostgreSQLTypeScriptnext-intlDocker

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Research brief

Experiment objectives

1Model portfolio content in PostgreSQL with translation tables instead of monolithic JSON blobs
2Build a reproducible seed pipeline from generated JSON through lib/data.ts into prisma db seed
3Wire public getters with withDbFallback so pages survive partial DB migration
4Validate admin Server Actions + revalidateTag keep cached SSR pages fresh after edits
5Document content visibility rules for publish toggles, PDF links, and conditional UI sections

Key learnings

Translation tables with @unique([entityId, locale]) scale better than duplicating entire entities per language
content_section as a shared table for lab and article bodies reduces schema duplication
Granular cache tags (projects, labs, articles) beat full-site revalidation after admin saves
Domain types in lib/ decouple React components from Prisma—mappers absorb schema changes
Version-controlled generated JSON makes demo portfolios reviewable and diffable in PRs

Lab visuals

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Experiment log

Documented steps, architecture notes, and outcomes from the research process.

Lab Overview

This lab is the architectural companion to the zaki-ns Platform project. Instead of treating the portfolio as static pages, we treat it as a small CMS: normalized tables, admin CRUD, cached reads, and structured long-form content for labs and articles.

The goal is a codebase you can deploy once per customer with admin-editable content and zero mock-data drift between seed, admin, and public pages.

Schema Design

Content aggregates—project, lab, article, product—each have a core row plus translation rows for locale-specific text. Nested relations (slides, challenges, metrics, sections) hang off the aggregate with explicit sortOrder columns.

Labs and articles share a content_section pattern: anchorId, heading, paragraphs[], optional list[], optional code block.

project + project_translation + slides/challenges/screenshots
lab + lab_translation + content_section + metrics
article + article_translation + content_section + tags
Singleton site tables: home_hero, about_value, quote_settings

Seed Pipeline

Content is authored in generated/generate-portfolio-content.py, exported to generated-portfolio-content.json, imported by lib/data.ts, and loaded into PostgreSQL via prisma/seed/content.ts.

This pipeline keeps demo data rich (case studies, labs, articles) while remaining reproducible: npm run db:reset restores the full showcase.

snippet

# Regenerate content JSON
python generated/generate-portfolio-content.py

# Reseed database
cd new && npm run db:seed

Cache Invalidation

Public getters wrap Prisma queries in unstable_cache with entity-specific tags. Admin Server Actions call revalidateTag after successful writes so the next SSR request fetches fresh data.

During migration, withDbFallback catches DB errors and serves lib/data.ts until seed counts verify.

Active Experiments

Current work explores schema-driven admin forms that auto-sync when Prisma models change, and moving quote calculator constants from lib/quote-data.ts into quote_settings rows for full CMS coverage.

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