// The typed metadata model and its rendering to head tags. Nothing here reaches // for a global default: a route that does not declare a description does not get // one, it fails the build (see validate.ts). import { type HeadLink, linkTags } from './links'; import { hreflangTag, type MetaLocalization, ogLocaleTag } from './locale-tags'; import { absoluteUrl } from './xml'; /** * Search results truncate past these; `validate.ts` enforces both, and only these two exist for * that reason — a `DESCRIPTION_MIN_LENGTH` shipped here with no validator reading it, so the * comment promised a gate that never ran. A bound with no enforcer does not ship. */ export const TITLE_MAX_LENGTH = 60; export const DESCRIPTION_MAX_LENGTH = 160; export interface RobotsDirectives { index?: boolean; follow?: boolean; maxSnippet?: number; maxImagePreview?: 'none' | 'standard' | 'large'; maxVideoPreview?: number; noarchive?: boolean; } export interface OpenGraphImage { url: string; /** 1200x630 is the card size every platform crops from. */ width?: number; height?: number; alt?: string; type?: string; } export interface OpenGraph { type?: 'website' | 'article' | 'profile' | 'product' | 'video.other'; title?: string; description?: string; url?: string; siteName?: string; locale?: string; image?: string | OpenGraphImage; publishedTime?: string; modifiedTime?: string; author?: string; section?: string; tags?: readonly string[]; } export interface TwitterCard { card?: 'summary' | 'summary_large_image' | 'app' | 'player'; site?: string; creator?: string; image?: string; imageAlt?: string; } export interface AlternateLocale { /** BCP-47 tag, or `x-default`. */ hreflang: string; href: string; } export interface ThemeColor { /** Any CSS colour. Pull it from @ultimat3/ui's tokens at the call site. */ color: string; scheme?: 'light' | 'dark'; } export interface RouteMeta { title?: string; /** `'%s — Ultimate'`. Applied unless the title already contains the brand. */ titleTemplate?: string; description?: string; canonical?: string; robots?: RobotsDirectives; /** * The social card opt-in for a document that may NOT be indexed. `robots: { index: false }` * withdraws every `og:*`, `article:*` and `twitter:*` tag; a route declaring `socialCard: true` * gets the card anyway — emitted exactly as an indexable document's, declared values winning and * the derived ones coming with it. The robots directives are never touched by this field. */ socialCard?: boolean; og?: OpenGraph; twitter?: TwitterCard; /** One entry per locale. `x-default` is added automatically when absent. */ alternates?: readonly AlternateLocale[]; /** The href `x-default` points at. Defaults to the canonical. */ xDefault?: string; themeColor?: readonly ThemeColor[]; /** JSON-LD nodes from `ld.*`. Rendered as one script tag per node. */ ld?: readonly Readonly>[]; /** * Extra `` tags for ``, in order: a font preload, a preconnect, a feed. An href is a * path or an http(s) URL, a preload names `as`, a font preload names `crossorigin` — anything * else is `X_SEO_LINK_INVALID`. Never absolutised: a preload must hit the origin the page did. */ links?: readonly HeadLink[]; } export interface HeadTag { readonly tag: 'title' | 'meta' | 'link' | 'script'; readonly attrs: Readonly>; /** * Text content, raw. Escaping is the RENDERER's — `@ultimat3/render`'s `renderHead` picks the * rule from the element and, for a `type` ending in `json`, from the fact that the body is data. * Escaping here would double-escape there, and a second escaper is how one of them ends up * missing a character. */ readonly text?: string; } export interface RenderMetaOptions { /** Absolutises canonical, og:url, and alternates. */ baseUrl?: string; /** Resolved path, used when `canonical` is omitted. */ path?: string; /** * The document's locale and the page in every routed locale. Given, and the route declares no * `alternates` of its own, the full hreflang cluster is emitted — every locale plus `x-default` — * with `og:locale` and one `og:locale:alternate` per other locale. A cluster of one is none. */ localization?: MetaLocalization; } /** * The hreflang set a route did not have to write: one entry per locale, BCP 47 region form, and * `x-default` naming the default locale's page. Empty for a single-locale app — an hreflang cluster * of one tells a crawler nothing and costs every document a tag. */ export function localizedAlternates( localization: MetaLocalization | undefined, ): readonly AlternateLocale[] { if (localization === undefined || localization.alternates.length < 2) return []; const cluster = localization.alternates.map((page) => ({ hreflang: hreflangTag(page.locale), href: page.path, })); const fallback = localization.alternates.find( (page) => page.locale === localization.defaultLocale, ); return fallback === undefined ? cluster : [...cluster, { hreflang: 'x-default', href: fallback.path }]; } /** * Separators a title template puts between the slot and the brand. Stripped so the BRAND is what * the containment test reads: `'%s — Ultimate'` means the brand is `Ultimate`, not `— Ultimate`. */ const TEMPLATE_SEPARATORS = /^[\s\-–—|·:>/]+|[\s\-–—|·:>/]+$/g; const WORD_CHARACTER = /[\p{L}\p{N}]/u; const isWordCharacter = (char: string | undefined): boolean => char !== undefined && WORD_CHARACTER.test(char); /** * `word` standing alone in `text`: `\b`, but for every script. `'Ultimately fast'.includes( * 'Ultimate')` is true, so that page shipped with no brand at all. A side of the word that is not * itself a letter or digit (`C++`) needs no boundary, exactly as `\b` would not find one there. */ function containsWord(text: string, word: string): boolean { const [first, last] = [[...word][0], [...word].at(-1)]; for (let at = text.indexOf(word); at !== -1; at = text.indexOf(word, at + 1)) { const before = [...text.slice(0, at)].at(-1); const after = [...text.slice(at + word.length)][0]; const opens = !isWordCharacter(first) || !isWordCharacter(before); const closes = !isWordCharacter(last) || !isWordCharacter(after); if (opens && closes) return true; } return false; } /** Where the page's own title goes. Case-sensitive: `%S` names no slot, and neither does absence. */ export const TITLE_SLOT = '%s'; /** * The containment was `template.includes(title)` — inverted, so it only ever answered true when * the title EQUALLED the brand. `applyTitleTemplate('About Ultimate', '%s — Ultimate')` produced * `'About Ultimate — Ultimate'`, which `validate.ts` then measured against `TITLE_MAX_LENGTH`. */ export function applyTitleTemplate(title: string, template?: string): string { if (template === undefined || template === '') return title; // No slot, nothing to apply: `'Ultimate'.replace('%s', title)` is a no-op that returned the // BRAND and threw the page's own title away, on every route in the app. Total on purpose — // `renderMeta` runs per request, so the refusal belongs in `validate.ts`'s build gate, where it // can name the file. if (!template.includes(TITLE_SLOT)) return title; const brand = template.replace(TITLE_SLOT, '').replace(TEMPLATE_SEPARATORS, ''); if (brand !== '' && containsWord(title, brand)) return title; // A FUNCTION as the replacement, never the string: `replace` expands `$$`, `$&` and `$'` in a // replacement literal, and a title is app data — "Save $$ on shoes" rendered one dollar. return template.replace(TITLE_SLOT, () => title); } export function robotsContent(directives: RobotsDirectives): string { const parts: string[] = [ directives.index === false ? 'noindex' : 'index', directives.follow === false ? 'nofollow' : 'follow', ]; if (directives.noarchive === true) parts.push('noarchive'); if (directives.maxSnippet !== undefined) parts.push(`max-snippet:${directives.maxSnippet}`); if (directives.maxImagePreview !== undefined) { parts.push(`max-image-preview:${directives.maxImagePreview}`); } if (directives.maxVideoPreview !== undefined) { parts.push(`max-video-preview:${directives.maxVideoPreview}`); } return parts.join(','); } /** * Full alternate set including `x-default`, which tells search engines which * URL to serve when no declared locale matches the user. Omitting it is the most * common i18n SEO bug, so it is added rather than merely allowed. */ export function hreflangSet( alternates: readonly AlternateLocale[], fallbackHref: string | undefined, ): readonly AlternateLocale[] { if (alternates.length === 0) return []; const hasDefault = alternates.some((entry) => entry.hreflang === 'x-default'); if (hasDefault) return alternates; const href = fallbackHref ?? alternates[0]?.href; return href === undefined ? alternates : [...alternates, { hreflang: 'x-default', href }]; } /** * The card a link preview is built from: `og:*`, `article:*`, `twitter:*`. * * Withdrawn from a document that may not be INDEXED: `robots: { index: false }` is a page its * author keeps out of a search result — behind sign-in, an error, or a draft — and a card for it * publishes the title and description the `noindex` was hiding. A route that wants the card anyway * says so ONCE, with `socialCard: true`, and then gets exactly the card an indexable document * gets: declared values win, the derived ones come with it. That field never touches the robots * directives, so the route stays noindex. */ function socialTags( meta: RouteMeta, localization: MetaLocalization | undefined, canonicalHref: string | undefined, abs: (value: string) => string, ): readonly HeadTag[] { if (meta.robots?.index === false && meta.socialCard !== true) return []; const tags: HeadTag[] = []; const og = meta.og ?? {}; const ogLocale = og.locale ?? (localization === undefined ? undefined : ogLocaleTag(localization.locale)); const ogEntries: Array<[string, string | undefined]> = [ ['og:type', og.type ?? 'website'], ['og:title', og.title ?? meta.title], ['og:description', og.description ?? meta.description], ['og:url', og.url === undefined ? canonicalHref : abs(og.url)], ['og:site_name', og.siteName], ['og:locale', ogLocale], ]; for (const [property, content] of ogEntries) { if (content !== undefined) tags.push({ tag: 'meta', attrs: { property, content } }); } // Every OTHER locale the page exists in — a repeatable property, which `@ultimat3/render`'s head // dedupe keys by content as well (`head-seo.ts`), so N alternates do not collapse to the last. if (localization !== undefined && localization.alternates.length > 1) { for (const page of localization.alternates) { if (page.locale === localization.locale) continue; tags.push({ tag: 'meta', attrs: { property: 'og:locale:alternate', content: ogLocaleTag(page.locale) }, }); } } if (og.image !== undefined) { const image = typeof og.image === 'string' ? { url: og.image } : og.image; tags.push({ tag: 'meta', attrs: { property: 'og:image', content: abs(image.url) } }); if (image.width !== undefined) { tags.push({ tag: 'meta', attrs: { property: 'og:image:width', content: String(image.width) }, }); } if (image.height !== undefined) { tags.push({ tag: 'meta', attrs: { property: 'og:image:height', content: String(image.height) }, }); } if (image.alt !== undefined) { tags.push({ tag: 'meta', attrs: { property: 'og:image:alt', content: image.alt } }); } } if (og.type === 'article') { const articleEntries: Array<[string, string | undefined]> = [ ['article:published_time', og.publishedTime], ['article:modified_time', og.modifiedTime], ['article:author', og.author], ['article:section', og.section], ]; for (const [property, content] of articleEntries) { if (content !== undefined) tags.push({ tag: 'meta', attrs: { property, content } }); } for (const tag of og.tags ?? []) { tags.push({ tag: 'meta', attrs: { property: 'article:tag', content: tag } }); } } // --- Twitter --------------------------------------------------------------- const twitter = meta.twitter ?? {}; const twitterEntries: Array<[string, string | undefined]> = [ ['twitter:card', twitter.card ?? (og.image === undefined ? 'summary' : 'summary_large_image')], ['twitter:site', twitter.site], ['twitter:creator', twitter.creator], ['twitter:title', og.title ?? meta.title], ['twitter:description', og.description ?? meta.description], ['twitter:image', twitter.image === undefined ? undefined : abs(twitter.image)], ['twitter:image:alt', twitter.imageAlt], ]; for (const [name, content] of twitterEntries) { if (content !== undefined) tags.push({ tag: 'meta', attrs: { name, content } }); } return tags; } export function renderMeta(meta: RouteMeta, options: RenderMetaOptions = {}): readonly HeadTag[] { const tags: HeadTag[] = []; const abs = (value: string): string => options.baseUrl === undefined ? value : absoluteUrl(options.baseUrl, value); const canonical = meta.canonical ?? (options.path === undefined ? undefined : options.path); const canonicalHref = canonical === undefined ? undefined : abs(canonical); if (meta.title !== undefined) { tags.push({ tag: 'title', attrs: {}, text: applyTitleTemplate(meta.title, meta.titleTemplate), }); } if (meta.description !== undefined) { tags.push({ tag: 'meta', attrs: { name: 'description', content: meta.description } }); } if (canonicalHref !== undefined) { tags.push({ tag: 'link', attrs: { rel: 'canonical', href: canonicalHref } }); } tags.push({ tag: 'meta', attrs: { name: 'robots', content: robotsContent(meta.robots ?? {}) }, }); const localization = options.localization; tags.push(...socialTags(meta, localization, canonicalHref, abs)); // --- hreflang -------------------------------------------------------------- // A route's own `alternates` win whole; otherwise the cluster comes from the routed locales. const declared = meta.alternates ?? []; const alternates = declared.length > 0 ? declared : localizedAlternates(localization); for (const alternate of hreflangSet(alternates, meta.xDefault ?? canonicalHref)) { tags.push({ tag: 'link', attrs: { rel: 'alternate', hreflang: alternate.hreflang, href: abs(alternate.href) }, }); } // --- the route's own links -------------------------------------------------- tags.push(...linkTags(meta.links ?? [])); // --- theme-color per colour scheme ---------------------------------------- for (const entry of meta.themeColor ?? []) { tags.push({ tag: 'meta', attrs: entry.scheme === undefined ? { name: 'theme-color', content: entry.color } : { name: 'theme-color', media: `(prefers-color-scheme: ${entry.scheme})`, content: entry.color, }, }); } // --- JSON-LD --------------------------------------------------------------- for (const node of meta.ld ?? []) { tags.push({ tag: 'script', attrs: { type: 'application/ld+json' }, text: JSON.stringify(node), }); } return tags; } // `renderHeadTags` lived here and was deleted `As of 2026-08`. It serialised these tags to HTML, // nothing called it, and its escaping was WEAKER than the path every document actually takes // (`@ultimat3/render`'s `renderHead`): it neutralised ``, and it applied // that code-shaped rule to a JSON body where the total `\uXXXX` rule is available and cannot be // got wrong. Exported and vulnerable is a trap — it looks authoritative because it lives in the // package named `seo`. This module CONSTRUCTS head tags; serialising them is tier 4's job, and // there is now one way to do it. seo cannot borrow render's escapers either: render is tier 4.