fix: import isAuthorRoute in page-context to prevent SSR 500s

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Symptom

Any unmatched route (e.g. a typo'd docs URL) crashed server-side rendering and returned an HTTP 500 instead of the expected 404 page.

Root cause

getInitialErrorStatus() in packages/chronicle/src/lib/page-context.tsx calls isAuthorRoute(route), but that function was never imported into the file — only resolveRoute, resolveContentRootRedirect, and RouteType were imported from @/lib/route-resolver. Every call hit ReferenceError: isAuthorRoute is not defined, which SSR surfaced as a 500.

isAuthorRoute is exported from packages/chronicle/src/lib/route-resolver.ts and is used to detect /authors and /authors/<slug> routes so they're excluded from the 404 status calculation.

Fix

Added isAuthorRoute to the existing route-resolver import:

-import { resolveRoute, resolveContentRootRedirect, RouteType } from '@/lib/route-resolver';
+import { resolveRoute, resolveContentRootRedirect, RouteType, isAuthorRoute } from '@/lib/route-resolver';

One line changed, no other files touched.

Verification

• bun run build:cli — succeeds.
• cd packages/chronicle && bun test — 314 pass, 0 fail.
• cd packages/chronicle && bunx biome lint src/lib/page-context.tsx — clean.
• Reproduced end-to-end against the dev server (bun run dev:examples:basic):
  • Before fix: curl http://localhost:3000/docs/this-route-does-not-exist → 500, with ReferenceError: isAuthorRoute is not defined in the server log (stack trace pointing at getInitialErrorStatus).
  • After fix: same request → 404, no error in the server log.
  • Valid page curl http://localhost:3000/docs/guides/installation → 200 both before and after (unaffected).

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📝 Walkthrough

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Author pages are no longer incorrectly treated as error routes during initial page loading.

Walkthrough

The page context now uses isAuthorRoute to return no initial error status for author routes.

Changes

Author route handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Author route error status packages/chronicle/src/lib/page-context.tsx	getInitialErrorStatus now treats author routes as non-error routes by returning null.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 98e01

This localized fix restores expected 404 responses for unmatched routes without affecting valid pages, and the supplied build, test, lint, and end-to-end checks pass; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Suggested reviewers: rohilsurana

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the import fix and its purpose of preventing SSR 500 errors. It accurately reflects the main change.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the SSR 500 symptom, the missing import root cause, the one-line fix, and the verification results. It is related to the changeset.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 1…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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