Replace all in-scope axios callsites with a new helpers/http.js wrapper over native fetch, including JSON/text GET, JSON POST, HEAD checks, and transient 5xx retry behavior; update all browser, build, script, and proxy API clients to use it; add focused unit tests; and remove axios from package dependencies.
Constraint: Preserve API/build and deployment behavior while lowering transport surface area.
Rejected: inline fetch replacements at each callsite | rejected to avoid inconsistent error/retry semantics.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Directive: Keep helper in place as the transport boundary and update tests when changing request semantics.
Tested: pnpm run -s typecheck, pnpm -s run test-prebuild, pnpm -s run test, pnpm -s run test:browser, pnpm -s run netlify-build, smoke GETs on /apple-silicon-app-test and /apple-silicon-app-test/?version=2
Not-tested: branch/netlify deployment health in CI pipeline after merge
Add a Bun health script that exercises top-level, dynamic, and representative video routes against one or more hosts so prod regressions are visible from a single command.
Device pages now fall back to the bundled device list when the external API misses a slug, and orphaned tv slugs redirect to /benchmarks instead of returning a 500. Video fallback logic reuses the existing YouTube-to-listing builder so route reconstruction stays aligned with the current build logic.
Constraint: The external API host can lag behind the frontend build and omit per-slug JSON files that public routes still expect
Rejected: Import the generated video list directly | static/video-list.json is too large for a safe SSR fallback
Rejected: Leave missing tv routes as 500s | a stale public URL should degrade to a useful redirect instead of breaking the request
Confidence: medium
Scope-risk: moderate
Reversibility: clean
Directive: Keep route fallbacks tied to build-time artifacts from the same repo so frontend and fallback data stay in sync
Tested: bun scripts/health http://127.0.0.1:4322; vitest ./test/prebuild/config-node.test.js ./test/prebuild/site-listings.test.js; pnpm run netlify-build
Not-tested: live production deploy before push
Align local version markers and GitHub Actions with Node 24, switch the default test entrypoint to the maintained Vitest runner, and replace pnpm-incompatible npm helpers in repo scripts.
This also removes the obsolete AVA plus esm path and excludes disabled test fixtures from generic Vitest discovery so CI reflects the supported test surface.
