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This PR fixes #111

badges.layer5.io emitted no Open Graph or Twitter Card metadata, so sharing the URL produced a bare link with no preview card.

The title/description tags that index.js and discussion-leaderboard.js did render were placed in the component body rather than in <head>, so under React 18 they never reached the document head at all — only 404.js used Gatsby's Head API correctly.

What changed

  • New src/sitecomponents/SEO/index.js — a shared Seo component rendering title, description, link rel=canonical, the Open Graph set (og:type, og:site_name, og:title, og:description, og:url, og:image, og:image:alt, og:image:width/height) and the Twitter Card set (twitter:card=summary_large_image, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image, twitter:image:alt, twitter:site, twitter:creator). It accepts per-page title / description / image / pathname overrides and falls back to siteMetadata.
  • Wired into all three pages via the Head export: index.js, discussion-leaderboard.js, 404.js. The misplaced in-body <title>/<meta> were removed.
  • Card image — the existing src/assets/images/recognition-banner.png suggested in the issue. It is referenced through the normal webpack asset import rather than duplicated into static/, so no new binary is added to the repo, and the tag carries the fully-qualified https://badges.layer5.io/... URL that crawlers require.
  • gatsby-config.js — added siteMetadata.social.twitter (@layer5) to populate twitter:site / twitter:creator. The Social type was already declared in gatsby-node.js but had no value behind it.
  • gatsby-node.js — declared title and description on SiteSiteMetadata. That type is explicitly created via createTypes, which disables inference, so the two fields were not queryable from GraphQL despite being set in gatsby-config.js.

Verification

npm run build succeeds, and the generated HTML carries the tags in <head> on every page:

public/index.html
  <meta property="og:title"       content="Layer5 Recognition Program">
  <meta property="og:url"         content="https://badges.layer5.io/">
  <meta property="og:image"       content="https://badges.layer5.io/static/recognition-banner-<hash>.png">
  <meta name="twitter:card"       content="summary_large_image">
  <meta name="twitter:image"      content="https://badges.layer5.io/static/recognition-banner-<hash>.png">
  <link rel="canonical"           href="https://badges.layer5.io/">

/discussion-leaderboard/ and /404/ get the same set with their own titles and canonical URLs. No stray title/meta remain in <body>.

Note: building locally also required @mui/icons-material, @mui/material and xstate, which @sistent/sistent and mui-datatables need but which are not declared in package.json. That is pre-existing and unrelated to this change, so it is left alone here — happy to open a separate issue if useful.

Follow-up worth considering: the banner is 3629×1599 and ~1.8 MB. Every major platform will render it, but some unfurlers (WhatsApp in particular) skip images over a few hundred KB. A purpose-built 1200×630 card would unfurl everywhere; that is an asset decision for the design team, so I did not add one here.

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  • New Features
    • Added consistent SEO metadata for the homepage, 404 page, and discussion leaderboard.
    • Added support for page titles, descriptions, canonical URLs, Open Graph tags, and Twitter Card previews.
    • Added support for custom social images and page paths.
    • Added Layer5’s Twitter handle to eligible social sharing metadata.
    • Added fallback metadata and a default social image when page-specific values are unavailable.

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The change adds shared SEO metadata generation, site-level Twitter metadata, nullable GraphQL metadata fields, and Gatsby Head integrations for the 404, leaderboard, and root pages.

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SEO Metadata

Layer / File(s) Summary
Metadata configuration and schema
gatsby-config.js, gatsby-node.js
Site metadata now includes the @layer5 Twitter handle. The SiteSiteMetadata GraphQL type exposes nullable title and description fields.
Shared SEO component
src/sitecomponents/SEO/index.js
Seo queries site metadata and renders title, description, canonical, Open Graph, and Twitter tags. It normalizes URLs and applies metadata and social image fallbacks.
Page Head integration
src/pages/404.js, src/pages/discussion-leaderboard.js, src/pages/index.js
The pages use Gatsby Head exports with Seo. Inline title and description tags are removed.

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Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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  participant Seo
  participant SiteMetadata
  GatsbyPage->>Seo: Render Head with page SEO props
  Seo->>SiteMetadata: Query title, description, siteUrl, and twitter
  SiteMetadata-->>Seo: Return site metadata
  Seo-->>GatsbyPage: Render document, Open Graph, and Twitter tags
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Links to badges.layer5.io did not unfurl with a preview card because the
site emitted no og:* or twitter:* metadata. The title/description tags
that index.js and discussion-leaderboard.js did render were placed in
the component body rather than in <head>, so they never reached the
document head under React 18.

Add a shared Seo component that renders title, description, canonical,
Open Graph and Twitter Card tags, and wire it into each page through
Gatsby's Head API. The card image is the existing Layer5 Recognition
Program banner already in the repository.

Supporting changes:
- gatsby-config.js: add siteMetadata.social.twitter for twitter:site.
- gatsby-node.js: declare title and description on SiteSiteMetadata.
  The type is explicitly created, which disables inference, so those
  fields were otherwise not queryable.

Signed-off-by: akkki007 <akshaynazare3@gmail.com>

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In `@src/sitecomponents/SEO/index.js`:
- Line 44: Update the SEO URL construction around seo.url to apply Gatsby’s
withPrefix(path) before concatenating it with siteUrl, ensuring canonical and
og:url values include the configured pathPrefix.

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Comment thread src/sitecomponents/SEO/index.js Outdated
The site ships path-prefixed builds: build-preview-site.yml sets
PATH_PREFIX and runs `npm run build -- --prefix-paths`. Page routes are
served under that prefix, but the canonical and og:url values were built
from the bare pathname, so they omitted it.

Run the page path through Gatsby's withPrefix. Imported assets are left
alone: webpack's publicPath already carries the prefix, so og:image was
correct and passing it through withPrefix would apply the prefix twice.

Verified both ways. With PATH_PREFIX=/test --prefix-paths, og:url and
canonical are https://badges.layer5.io/test/... matching og:image; a
plain build is unchanged at https://badges.layer5.io/...

Signed-off-by: akkki007 <akshaynazare3@gmail.com>
Comment thread src/sitecomponents/SEO/index.js Outdated
Per review: PATH_PREFIX is only ever set by build-preview-site.yml, and a
PR preview is an ephemeral deployment. Pointing a preview's canonical at
its own preview path is not wanted, so the page route stays unprefixed
and resolves to the production URL.

Assets still need the prefix, from the two sources that supply it:
- an imported asset is prefixed by webpack's publicPath, so
  defaultSocialImage must not go through withPrefix as well
- a caller-supplied path out of static/ is not, so the `image` prop does

Verified with PATH_PREFIX=/test --prefix-paths. canonical and og:url are
https://badges.layer5.io/... with no prefix; og:image is
.../test/static/recognition-banner-<hash>.png for the default and
.../test/assets/... for an `image` override, each prefixed exactly once.
A plain root build is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: akkki007 <akshaynazare3@gmail.com>

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LGTM. This fixes the cause of #111. The title and meta tags now live in <head> through Gatsby's Head API, OG and Twitter Card tags are generated from one shared Seo component, and declaring title/description on SiteSiteMetadata fixes the schema, which previously hid those fields from GraphQL.
I left two small inline comments. Neither blocks the merge.

Comment thread src/sitecomponents/SEO/index.js Outdated
Comment thread src/pages/404.js Outdated
Both per review.

withPrefix returns an absolute URL unchanged, and webpack inlines a
small enough asset as a data: URI, so prepending siteUrl unconditionally
could emit "https://badges.layer5.iohttps://...". Qualify only a
root-relative path and pass anything else through as-is.

The 404 is served for every unknown path, so a canonical of /404/ claims
a URL the visitor did not request. Seo now omits canonical and og:url
when no pathname is given, and 404.js gives none.

Verified against a throwaway probe page for the image cases, in both
build modes:
- image="https://cdn.example.com/card.png" -> emitted unchanged
- image="/assets/badges/..."               -> prefixed exactly once
- default imported banner                  -> prefixed exactly once
- 404                                      -> no canonical, no og:url

Signed-off-by: akkki007 <akshaynazare3@gmail.com>
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