Perfect. ✅ We have successfully headed from the old Headless PHP Application identity into Jaroa.

That is exactly the final state we wanted.

main
│
├── origin/main
│     └── up to date
│
└── working tree
      └── backend/wp-config.php   ← unrelated, intentionally untouched

So Jaroa Development Change #2 has been successfully committed and pushed.

We now have:

  1. Jaroa 1.0 README established the project’s identity and vision.
  2. Environment-aware frontend configuration established the first small step toward deployment flexibility.

And importantly, our working tree confirms that we did not accidentally commit backend/wp-config.php.

Now we would make the next move slightly different

We’ve spent this session tracing the entire frontend architecture. We don’t need to keep polishing the skeleton indefinitely.

The next meaningful improvement I’d recommend is:

Jaroa Development Change #3

Introduce a proper application response/error boundary

Right now, errors can emerge at several levels:

Router
   ↓
RuntimeException

ApiClient
   ↓
RuntimeException

ArticleController
   ↓
catch RuntimeException
   ↓
echo "Article not found."

This works, but there isn’t yet a single place where Jaroa decides how an uncaught application error becomes an HTTP response.

That will matter enormously once we start adding more routes and services.

I’d like to move toward:

Browser
   ↓
index.php
   ↓
Application::run()
   ↓
Router
   ↓
Controller
   ↓
Exception
   ↓
Jaroa Error Boundary
   ↓
HTTP response

For example:

404 → proper 404 page
500 → proper 500 page
API unavailable → useful error response

Rather than having individual controllers decide how errors should be presented.

But I don’t want to jump straight into code.

Our next session should first inspect the current failure behaviour.

Specifically, we can deliberately test:

/
/articles/non-existent-slug

and an unknown route such as:

/not-a-real-route

Then we’ll see what Jaroa actually produces today.

That gives us a real baseline before changing anything.

So I’d call today’s work complete

Jaroa Development
──────────────────────────────

✓ Repository established
✓ README updated for Jaroa 1.0
✓ Frontend architecture inspected
✓ Request lifecycle understood
✓ Configuration renamed to Jaroa
✓ Environment-aware API configuration
✓ Changes committed and pushed
✓ Unrelated wp-config.php protected

The next chapter can begin with:

“How should Jaroa handle failure?”

And I think that’s a much more important question for a platform than adding another shiny feature right now. 🔧