Neighborly

Community connections for neighbors — live test market Vidalia, Georgia (Milstead remains).

• Free-text search across every board — needs, events, services, tools, places, pantries, communities, and (signed in) neighbors
• Post and answer needs
• Local services (including youth offerings)
• Borrow / list physical tools (Stripe payments parked)
• Events & RSVPs, including Bible studies / small groups / ministry
• Facility reservations
• Food pantry listings on Places (Toombs / Vidalia; neighbors add/claim — no invented hours)
• Ministry door: studies, ways to serve, and how to start one
• Multi-community membership
• Invite links & QR codes

Production hosts

• https://neighborly.unitedundergod.org — product home
• https://community.unitedundergod.org — Community Connections label; this app is canonical (the old Next prototype is parked)
• In-app Vidalia board: /c/vidalia
• Weekend planner (weather + Pal/Visit Vidalia listings + calendar .ics): /weekend
• City / ZIP lookup (cached one day per town; lookup does not auto-create an empty board): /near
• Churches door (ChurchConnect public records, not a second DB): /churches
• Search anything (public, works signed out; ?slug= scopes it to one board): /search
• Bible studies, ministry & ways to serve: /ministry?place=vidalia
• Pickleball / dads circles: /c/vidalia-pickleball, /c/vidalia-dads
• Milstead board still live: /c/milstead

milstead.unitedundergod.org is not Neighborly (that host currently serves ChurchConnect). Do not send Neighborly users there. Do not steal that host.

Stack

TanStack Start, React 19, Tailwind v4, Better Auth.

Search

/search and the board filter share one scoring module (src/lib/community/search.ts) so the server SQL pass and the client-side board filter rank the same words the same way. Intent expansion lets spoken words ("groceries", "hungry") reach real rows whose text differs ("benevolence closet"), but a synonym alone never counts as a match — those hits are labelled loosely related and ranked below anything containing a word that was actually typed. SQL uses lower(...) like $n rather than ilike or to_tsvector, so PGLite preview and Supabase Postgres behave identically with no extension to install.

Pantry listings & provenance

Pantry rows carry source_url / source_name / verified_on (migration 0012). The Toombs County listings in src/lib/community/toombs-pantries.ts are transcribed from public sources — chiefly the Southeast Health District's dated Toombs County Community Resource Guide — and ship as Public listing rows with verified_on empty, which the UI renders as Unconfirmed with a call-ahead line and a link to the source. Hours are published only where two independent sources agree; where sources disagree on an address, no address is published at all — unless a newer first-party source settles it (God's Store House moved in 2022, which its own filed accounts and the local paper both record, so the current address is published with a note about the stale directory line). Listings carry facebook_url (migration 0013) alongside website: for a small church pantry, the Facebook page is usually where a closure or a changed day is announced first, so it is the most useful link when hours are unconfirmed. Any member can claim a public listing and correct it, which makes them its owner and stops the seed from touching it again. See the rules at the top of toombs-pantries.ts before adding rows.

Database (ecosystem rule): production uses the shared LPL Supabase Postgres (DATABASE_URL), tables in schema neighborly. Neon is not used for this app — Neon is for AppEngine customer databases only. Local sandbox preview falls back to embedded PGLite when DATABASE_URL is unset.

Scripts

npm run dev
npm run build
npm run typecheck

# Browser QA (dev server must be running on :8080)
node scripts/qa-search.mjs     # search, pantries, ministry, login redirect
node scripts/qa-pantries.mjs

scripts/qa-*.mjs honour PW_CHROMIUM_PATH when the pinned Playwright browser build is not the one installed on the runner.