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>

server/controllers/blogPostController.js

@@ -112,25 +112,39 @@ module.exports.getAll = [
     // '/api/public/blogPosts?limit=4'  --> gets only 4 published post of all categories
     // '/api/public/blogPosts?category=${encodeURIComponent(categoryTitle)}&page=${pageNumber}'  --> gets posts depend on the category title and in chunked data
 
-    if (req.query.category) {
-      try {
-        const categoryID = await BlogCategory.findOne({$or: [{'locale.fa.title': req.query.category}, {'locale.en.title': req.query.category}]})
-        const filter = req.query.category === 'all' ? {published: true} : {published: true, category: categoryID._id}
-        BlogPost.paginate(filter, {page: req.query.page, limit: blogPaginateLimit, populate: 'category', sort: {_id: -1}}, (err, posts) => {
-          if (err) return res500(res, {message: _sr['fa'].not_found.item_id})
-          return res.json(posts)
+    try {
+      if (req.query.category) {
+        const filter = {published: true}
+        if (req.query.category !== 'all') {
+          const category = await BlogCategory.findOne({
+            $or: [
+              {'locale.fa.title': req.query.category},
+              {'locale.en.title': req.query.category}
+            ]
+          })
+          if (!category) return res404(res, _sr['fa'].not_found.item_id)
+          filter.category = category._id
+        }
+        const posts = await BlogPost.paginate(filter, {
+          page: Number(req.query.page) || 1,
+          limit: blogPaginateLimit,
+          populate: 'category',
+          sort: {_id: -1}
         })
-      } catch (e) {
-        return res500(res, e)
+        return res.json(posts)
       }
-    } else {
-      let query = {published: true}
+
+      const query = {published: true}
       if (req.query.getAll) delete query.published
-      const limit = Number(req.query.limit) || false
-      BlogPost.find(query).sort({_id: -1}).limit(limit).populate('category').exec((err, posts) => {
-        if (err) return res500(res, err)
-        else return res.json(posts)
-      })
+      const limit = Number(req.query.limit) || 0
+      const posts = await BlogPost.find(query)
+        .sort({_id: -1})
+        .limit(limit)
+        .populate('category')
+      return res.json(posts)
+    } catch (e) {
+      console.error('blogPost getAll error:', e)
+      return res500(res, e)
     }
   }
 ]

server/index.js

@@ -25,6 +25,14 @@ app.use('/public', Public)
 app.use('/auth', auth)
 app.use('/admin', isAdmin, admin)
 
+app.get('/health', (req, res) => {
+  res.json({ ok: true })
+})
+
+app.use((err, req, res, next) => {
+  console.error('Express error:', req.method, req.originalUrl, err?.message || err)
+  res.status(500).json({ message: err?.message || 'Internal Server Error' })
+})
 
 // Export the server middleware
 module.exports = {

server/plugins/controllersHelperFunctions.js

@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ module.exports.res404 = (res, err) => {
 }
 
 module.exports.res500 = (res, err) => {
-  return res.status(500).json({message: err})
+  console.error('API 500:', err?.message || err)
+  return res.status(500).json({message: err?.message || err})
 }
 
 module.exports.checkValidations = validationResult => {