Fix homepage API 500 by using axios baseURL and stable paginate.

Replace self-proxy with direct SSR baseURL, rewrite blog post pagination with async/await, pin mongoose-paginate-v2, and add API error logging.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

nuxt.config.js

@@ -72,11 +72,10 @@ export default {
 	},
 
 	axios: {
-		proxy: true
-	},
-	proxy: {
-		// SSR axios requests must hit the same Nuxt process that hosts serverMiddleware (/api).
-		'/api': { target: `http://127.0.0.1:${nuxtPort}` }
+		// SSR calls the integrated Express API directly; browser uses relative /api paths.
+		proxy: false,
+		baseURL: `http://127.0.0.1:${nuxtPort}`,
+		browserBaseURL: '/'
 	},
 	router: {
 		linkActiveClass: 'active-link',
@@ -85,7 +84,7 @@ export default {
 	serverMiddleware: ['~/server/index.js'],
 	server: {
 		host: '0.0.0.0',
-		port: 3000
+		port: nuxtPort
 	},
 
 	auth: {