import type { Metadata, Viewport } from "next";
import { siteData } from "@/lib/site-data";
import IndexNowPing from "@/components/seo/IndexNowPing";
import "./globals.css";
// v25.55 — explicit viewport meta. Without this Next 14 does NOT
// auto-emit on the App Router, so mobile
// browsers render at 1280px desktop width zoomed-out and every
// @media (max-width: ...) breakpoint silently fails. Result was a
// site that "looked desktop-only" on phones. Setting initialScale=1
// + width=device-width brings the responsive breakpoints back online.
export const viewport: Viewport = {
width: "device-width",
initialScale: 1,
maximumScale: 5,
themeColor: "#0c1e3e",
};
/**
* Root layout — provides HTML skeleton, fonts, and site-wide metadata base.
* Individual pages override title/description via their own metadata exports.
*/
export const metadata: Metadata = {
metadataBase: new URL(siteData.site.url),
title: {
default: siteData.meta.home.title,
template: `%s | ${siteData.product.name}`,
},
description: siteData.meta.home.description,
authors: [{ name: siteData.editorial.author }],
keywords: siteData.meta.home.keywords.split(",").map((k) => k.trim()),
robots: {
index: true,
follow: true,
googleBot: {
index: true,
follow: true,
"max-video-preview": -1,
"max-image-preview": "large",
"max-snippet": -1,
},
},
// v25.45.1 — favicon emitted at public/favicon.ico by the autosite
// builder. The Metadata.icons block produces the canonical link tags
// (, shortcut, apple-touch); the explicit s
// in below are belt-and-braces for older browsers / scrapers
// that don't honour the Next.js metadata icons emit.
icons: {
icon: "/favicon.ico",
shortcut: "/favicon.ico",
apple: "/favicon.ico",
},
// v25.46 — search engine verification meta tags. Filled from
// environment variables so end users add Google Search Console +
// Bing Webmaster Tools verification post-deploy without re-running
// the generator. Both fields skip emission when env is unset.
verification: {
google: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_GOOGLE_VERIFICATION || undefined,
other: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_BING_VERIFICATION
? { "msvalidate.01": process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_BING_VERIFICATION }
: undefined,
},
other: {
"theme-color": "#0c1e3e",
"msapplication-TileColor": "#0c1e3e",
},
};
export default function RootLayout({
children,
}: {
children: React.ReactNode;
}) {
return (
{/* v25.67 — Hero image preload for LCP optimisation. Bing
weights LCP/CLS/INP directly in ranking; preload trims
~1.5s off LCP for the homepage hero. Skipped silently
when heroImageUrl is absent. */}
{siteData.product.heroImageUrl ? (
) : null}
{children}
{/* v25.67 — IndexNow first-visitor ping. No-op when
NEXT_PUBLIC_INDEXNOW_KEY env var isn't set. */}
);
}