This article exists to confirm the blog route renders correctly. It's not real content and should not be read as advice.
What this validates
The page should render: a hero image at top, the article header with category pill and reading time, the affiliate disclosure (because affiliateProducts > 0), the prose body, a Top Pick component, an FAQ section, related posts (none yet), and three JSON-LD schema scripts in the document head — Article, FAQPage, ItemList (Review).
Why a placeholder matters
Building the blog route without sample data leaves the frontend untested until the first real article ships. That's a bad place to find bugs. This file exercises every component path so the route is proven before any pipeline-generated content arrives.
The page intentionally violates several brand-voice rules (it isn't research, has no real anecdote, no real product) — that's fine for a smoke test. Real articles will be governed by the brand bible.
How to remove this later
Once the first three real articles are published, this file can be deleted. The validation it provides is a one-time gate, not an ongoing fixture.
Top Pick: example
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The bottom line
If this page renders without errors and shows valid schema markup in view-source, the blog route is working. Delete this file once real content ships.