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The "genuinely more complex, not-yet-understood two-hymn mechanism"
flagged for Sunday turned out simple: Day0 Hymnus ("Nocte surgéntes")
is just Sunday's plain per-annum hymn, and Day0 Hymnus1 ("Primo
diérum ómnium") is Septuagesima-tide's own separate seasonal hymn --
the same shape Advent/Lent/Passiontide/Paschaltide each already have.
Live-verified these 4 don't vary by weekday within their season (a
Lenten Sunday and a Lenten feria render identically). None of the 6
were authored at all before this -- every Sunday and every season day
not otherwise overridden by a winning saint/octave silently fell
through to Monday's own ferial placeholder text.
Authored matins-hymn-{sunday,septuagesima,advent,lent,passiontide,
paschaltide}.yml, all live-verified, self-contained with their own
real closing doxology baked in. Septuagesima is checked directly by
day.season in resolveMatinsHymn itself, deliberately not folded into
the shared seasonalOfficeSuffix (Lauds/Vespers have no matching
content yet -- resolveOfficeBundle there is all-or-nothing per feast,
so adding it would silently blank their chapter/hymn instead of
falling through to their current weekday default).
Known, flagged simplification: the generic Paschaltide hymn wrongly
applies during the Ascension octave, whose own real hymn isn't
authored anywhere yet -- a same-shape gap Lauds already has, not a
new regression. Updated 2 FERIAL_DATE (a Tuesday in Advent) hymn
assertions that had been asserting Tuesday's own ferial text --
Advent's own seasonal hymn correctly outranks the weekday cycle now.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AGjUyhUZJaSjiniEmnLdak
vu
A static, offline-first PWA for praying the Divine Office — Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, and Compline — in bilingual Latin/English, for any given date.
This isn't a reconstruction of any single historical breviary. It's a personal design that
draws on several historical sources without reproducing any one of them exactly: hour
structure chiefly from the Monastic Tridentinum (1617), precedence/rubrics from Divino
Afflatu, and a calendar merged from both the Tridentine 1906 and Divino Afflatu calendars,
with more generous handling of commemorations and octaves than any one historical rite used.
See CLAUDE.md (gitignored, not shipped in this repo) or the project's own notes for the full
rationale if you're extending it.
There's no backend and no database — everything is a pre-built static bundle, and the app is designed to keep working fully offline once it's been loaded once.
Development
Requires Node.js (developed against Node 20+).
npm install
npm run dev # start the Vite dev server
npm run build # type-check (tsc --noEmit) and produce a production build in dist/
npm run preview # serve the production build locally
npm test # run the test suite (vitest)
Run a single test file or a subset by name:
npx vitest run tests/hours/vespers.test.ts
npx vitest run -t "some test name"
Running in production
The app is entirely static once built, so "running it" just means serving dist/ — any static
file host works, as long as it falls back to index.html for unknown paths (the app does its
own client-side routing for URLs like /2026-08-09/prime).
Docker
A Dockerfile builds the static bundle with Node and serves it with Caddy:
docker build -t vu .
docker run -p 8080:80 vu
Or with Docker Compose (docker-compose.yml is included):
docker compose up -d --build
This serves the app on http://localhost:8080. Put a reverse proxy/TLS terminator in front of
it for a real deployment; the container itself just listens on port 80 internally and has no
configuration, secrets, or external dependencies.
Without Docker
Any static file server works — build the app, then serve dist/ with SPA-style fallback
routing. For example, with Caddy directly:
npm run build
caddy file-server --root dist --listen :8080
(For a real deployment you'll want a fallback rule so unknown paths resolve to index.html —
see the Caddyfile in this repo for the pattern.)