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  • New Features

    • Added a complete form backend application for collecting and managing submissions.
    • Added public form endpoints with JSON, URL-encoded, and multipart submission support.
    • Added an admin dashboard for form management, submission review, deletion, pagination, and CSV export.
    • Added password-protected sessions, configurable redirects, CORS support, honeypot handling, and privacy safeguards.
    • Added database seeding with a demo form and sample submissions.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded setup, configuration, deployment, API, troubleshooting, and usage documentation.
    • Added environment configuration guidance and deployment workflows.

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Added the form-backend Compute example. It provides a Composer-managed PostgreSQL database, public form collection, admin dashboard, CSV export, deployment workflows, and expanded documentation. Template tests now validate Composer builds and deploy bundles.

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Form Backend

Layer / File(s) Summary
Data contract and persistence
compute/form-backend/src/prisma/*
Added Form and Submission models, generated Prisma contracts, database initialization, seed data, slug handling, CRUD operations, pagination, and submission export queries.
Request processing and server runtime
compute/form-backend/src/auth.ts, compute/form-backend/src/payload.ts, compute/form-backend/src/origin.ts, compute/form-backend/src/app.tsx, compute/form-backend/src/index.ts
Added signed admin sessions, bounded request parsing for JSON, URL-encoded, and multipart bodies, origin resolution, Hono route registration, error handling, health checks, and port selection.
Collection and administration routes
compute/form-backend/src/routes/*, compute/form-backend/src/ui.tsx, compute/form-backend/src/csv.ts
Added public collection responses, landing-page examples, authenticated form management, submission viewing and deletion, CSV export, shared UI components, and styling.
Composer deployment and template integration
compute/form-backend/module.ts, compute/form-backend/src/service.ts, compute/form-backend/package.json, compute/form-backend/prisma.config.ts, compute/form-backend/prisma-composer.config.ts, .github/workflows/*, tests/compute.test.ts, compute/README.md
Added Composer database and application wiring, exact-pinned tooling, deployment workflows, environment and build configuration, documentation, template metadata, and deploy-bundle validation.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to f5911

The template currently risks failing its database tooling workflow and may remain unavailable or serve incorrectly after connection failures or fatal process errors. These concrete correctness and availability issues should be fixed before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Browser
  participant FormBackend
  participant PayloadParser
  participant PostgreSQL
  Browser->>FormBackend: Submit form data to /f/:slug
  FormBackend->>PayloadParser: Parse and validate request body
  PayloadParser-->>FormBackend: Parsed payload or structured error
  FormBackend->>PostgreSQL: Verify active form and store submission
  PostgreSQL-->>FormBackend: Persistence result
  FormBackend-->>Browser: JSON, redirect, or HTML response
``

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Actionable comments posted: 8

🧹 Nitpick comments (5)
compute/form-backend/src/prisma/db.ts (1)

7-19: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Log the swallowed Composer error before falling back.

loadComposerDatabase discards every error. Two very different situations produce the same result: the app was not booted through Composer, and the Composer service exists but its database client failed to resolve. In the second case the app silently falls back to DATABASE_URL, or to a default connection when DATABASE_URL is unset. An operator then has no signal that the intended database was not used.

Log the caught error at debug level so the fallback is traceable.

♻️ Proposed change
 function loadComposerDatabase() {
   try {
     return service.load().database.client;
-  } catch {
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.debug("Composer database client unavailable; falling back to DATABASE_URL:", error);
     return undefined;
   }
 }
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In `@compute/form-backend/src/prisma/db.ts` around lines 7 - 19, Update
loadComposerDatabase to catch the error object and log it at debug level before
returning undefined, preserving the existing fallback selection through db.
compute/form-backend/src/routes/collect.tsx (2)

39-55: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Look up the form before you read the request body.

parseSubmissionBody runs at Line 42, and the form lookup runs at Line 45. An unknown or deactivated slug therefore still causes the server to read and parse the whole body, up to MAX_BODY_BYTES. This endpoint is public and unauthenticated, so an attacker can force that work with requests to slugs that do not exist.

wantsJson derives from prefersJson(c), which reads only headers. Compute it separately, reject the unknown slug first, and parse the body only for a valid active form.

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In `@compute/form-backend/src/routes/collect.tsx` around lines 39 - 55, Update the
collect.post handler to compute wantsJson directly from the request headers,
then call findFormBySlug and reject missing or inactive forms before invoking
parseSubmissionBody. Only parse the request body after confirming the form is
active, while preserving the existing parsed status and message handling for
valid forms.

39-40: 🧹 Nitpick | 🔵 Trivial

Consider a rate limit for the public collection endpoint.

This route accepts unauthenticated writes from any origin, and each accepted request inserts a row. The honeypot at Line 58 stops naive bots only. A determined client can grow the submission table without bound.

For a template, a per-IP limit plus a documented note is usually enough. Compute-level or reverse-proxy limits are an alternative.

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In `@compute/form-backend/src/routes/collect.tsx` around lines 39 - 40, Add rate
limiting to the unauthenticated collect.post route, preferably enforcing a
per-IP request limit before accepting and inserting submissions; preserve
legitimate collection behavior within the limit and reject excess requests
consistently. Document the selected limit and enforcement approach near the
endpoint or in the relevant project documentation.
compute/form-backend/src/index.ts (1)

8-13: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

A blanket uncaughtException handler can keep a broken process serving traffic.

The comment states the goal: a dropped database socket must not stop the process. The handler is wider than that goal. It catches every uncaught exception, including programming errors that leave the process in an undefined state. Node documents that resuming normal operation after uncaughtException is unsafe.

The result is a process that keeps accepting requests and returns errors for all of them, with no restart and no health signal.

Consider letting Compute restart the process on unexpected exceptions, and handling only the expected socket errors at their source. If the current behaviour is intentional for this template, the comment should also state that the process may keep serving after a fatal error.

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In `@compute/form-backend/src/index.ts` around lines 8 - 13, Remove the blanket
uncaughtException handler from the process-level setup so unexpected exceptions
terminate the process for Compute to restart; handle expected dropped database
socket errors at their originating source instead, while retaining
unhandledRejection handling unless separately required.
compute/form-backend/src/prisma/forms.ts (1)

109-113: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use a transaction for deleteForm.

If form deletion fails after deleteAndCount() succeeds, the submissions are deleted while the form remains. Use db.transaction(async (tx) => { ... }) and call both mutations through tx.orm so both changes roll back together.

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In `@compute/form-backend/src/prisma/forms.ts` around lines 109 - 113, Update
deleteForm to wrap the submission and form deletions in db.transaction,
performing both mutations through tx.orm so either both succeed or both roll
back together.
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Inline comments:
In `@compute/form-backend/package.json`:
- Around line 8-10: Update all composer:* scripts in
compute/form-backend/package.json to invoke `@prisma/cli`@next instead of
prisma@next, including composer:deploy, composer:destroy, and composer:dev. Also
update the regexp in tests/compute.test.ts at lines 104-108 to require bunx
`@prisma/cli`@next composer deploy.

In `@compute/form-backend/README.md`:
- Line 7: Update the README’s privacy claim near “No third party sees your form
data” to scope it to form-processing vendors, or explicitly document the
infrastructure provider’s data-processing role and applicable terms for the
Prisma Compute and Prisma Postgres deployment.
- Line 190: Update the code fence around the project-structure listing in
README.md to specify the text language identifier, changing the untyped fence to
a text fence so it satisfies markdownlint MD040.

In `@compute/form-backend/src/auth.ts`:
- Around line 49-76: Update sessionToken and startSession so the session value
includes an expiry timestamp within the signed payload, using the existing
seven-day lifetime. In isSignedIn, parse the expiry, reject malformed or expired
tokens, and continue comparing the signature with digestsMatch in constant time.

In `@compute/form-backend/src/payload.ts`:
- Around line 136-160: Update the multipart branch around formData parsing to
enforce MAX_BODY_BYTES on the raw request bytes before invoking
Request.formData(). Read the body through a capped byte-limited path, reject
oversized or incomplete-limit reads with the existing 413 response, then
reconstruct a Request using those bytes and the original multipart Content-Type
before parsing. Replace the key.length + value.length accounting in the entries
loop, while preserving text-only field validation and normal parsing behavior.

In `@compute/form-backend/src/prisma/forms.ts`:
- Around line 43-53: Update the Form.create flow to catch unique-constraint slug
conflicts, rerun slug allocation, and retry creation rather than returning HTTP
500; rethrow unrelated errors. Refactor uniqueSlug to obtain existing slugs
matching the base prefix with one query, derive the next available candidate in
memory, and retain its fallback when no candidate is available.

In `@compute/form-backend/src/prisma/seed.ts`:
- Around line 36-55: Update runSeed so demo submissions are created only when
the upserted form has no existing submissions, rechecking that condition
immediately before Submission.createAll. Preserve the current form upsert and
submission payload mapping, and use the ORM’s existing submission relation/query
for the form identified by form.id.

In `@compute/form-backend/src/routes/admin.tsx`:
- Around line 37-43: Update requireSession to set the response Cache-Control
header to no-store after authentication succeeds and before await next(),
covering all protected admin routes while preserving the existing redirect for
unsigned-in users.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@compute/form-backend/src/index.ts`:
- Around line 8-13: Remove the blanket uncaughtException handler from the
process-level setup so unexpected exceptions terminate the process for Compute
to restart; handle expected dropped database socket errors at their originating
source instead, while retaining unhandledRejection handling unless separately
required.

In `@compute/form-backend/src/prisma/db.ts`:
- Around line 7-19: Update loadComposerDatabase to catch the error object and
log it at debug level before returning undefined, preserving the existing
fallback selection through db.

In `@compute/form-backend/src/prisma/forms.ts`:
- Around line 109-113: Update deleteForm to wrap the submission and form
deletions in db.transaction, performing both mutations through tx.orm so either
both succeed or both roll back together.

In `@compute/form-backend/src/routes/collect.tsx`:
- Around line 39-55: Update the collect.post handler to compute wantsJson
directly from the request headers, then call findFormBySlug and reject missing
or inactive forms before invoking parseSubmissionBody. Only parse the request
body after confirming the form is active, while preserving the existing parsed
status and message handling for valid forms.
- Around line 39-40: Add rate limiting to the unauthenticated collect.post
route, preferably enforcing a per-IP request limit before accepting and
inserting submissions; preserve legitimate collection behavior within the limit
and reject excess requests consistently. Document the selected limit and
enforcement approach near the endpoint or in the relevant project documentation.
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  • compute/form-backend/src/routes/home.tsx
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Comment thread compute/form-backend/src/routes/admin.tsx
- auth: embed an expiry in the signed session token and enforce it server-side
- payload: cap raw multipart bytes before parsing instead of after
- forms: retry form creation on slug unique-constraint conflicts
- seed: guard demo submissions against concurrent cold-start seeding
- admin: send Cache-Control: no-store on authenticated dashboard routes
- README: scope the third-party claim; add language to code fence
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Adopt the pinned-toolchain template convention that landed on `latest`:

- package.json: pin `prisma@8.0.0-rc.6` and `@prisma/composer-cli@0.10.0`,
  drop `bunx @prisma/cli@next` in favour of the local `prisma` bin, and add
  the four `compute:` scripts every template now ships
- move `service.ts` under `src/` so the deploy-bundle check can assemble it
- add `.github/workflows/prisma-deploy.yml` and `bunfig.toml`
- build now emits the contract first, so the committed contract cannot drift
- load `dotenv/config` for the non-Composer path
- register `form-backend` as a database template in tests/compute.test.ts
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compute/form-backend/src/prisma/db.ts (1)

22-26: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Recreate the database client after a failed connection.

@prisma/orm-postgres@8.0.0-rc.4 retains backgroundConnectError after connect() rejects. Clearing connection does not reset that client state. Recreate the database client and cached promise together after rejection. Add a recovery test.

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In `@compute/form-backend/src/prisma/db.ts` around lines 22 - 26, Update
connectDatabase so a rejected db.connect() clears the cached connection and
recreates the database client before the next connection attempt, avoiding reuse
of the client’s retained backgroundConnectError state. Keep successful
connection caching intact, and add a recovery test that verifies a failed
attempt can reconnect using the recreated client.
compute/form-backend/src/index.ts (1)

1-13: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Terminate the process after fatal process errors.

After logging uncaughtException or unhandledRejection, stop accepting requests and exit with a non-zero status. Handle recoverable database errors at the request or database boundary instead of keeping the process alive from global handlers.

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In `@compute/form-backend/src/index.ts` around lines 1 - 13, Update the global
uncaughtException and unhandledRejection handlers in the process setup to log
the error, stop accepting requests, and terminate the process with a non-zero
exit status; move any recoverable database-error handling to the relevant
request or database boundary rather than keeping the process alive globally.
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In `@compute/form-backend/src/index.ts`:
- Around line 1-13: Update the global uncaughtException and unhandledRejection
handlers in the process setup to log the error, stop accepting requests, and
terminate the process with a non-zero exit status; move any recoverable
database-error handling to the relevant request or database boundary rather than
keeping the process alive globally.

In `@compute/form-backend/src/prisma/db.ts`:
- Around line 22-26: Update connectDatabase so a rejected db.connect() clears
the cached connection and recreates the database client before the next
connection attempt, avoiding reuse of the client’s retained
backgroundConnectError state. Keep successful connection caching intact, and add
a recovery test that verifies a failed attempt can reconnect using the recreated
client.

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